A Tale of Two Cities (World's Classics S.)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Andrew Sanders (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1988

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  This, Dickens' second historical novel is set between 1757 and 1793, and looks at the causes and effects of the French Revolution from an essentially private point of view. He attempts to show that individuals, given moral choices, can choose mercy over justice, sacrifice over selfishness and that such choices may prove the more perfect human way. Private experience and public history are seen in parallel in this examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Andrew Sanders has edited W.C. Thackeray's Barry Lyndon , Mrs. Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and is honorary editor of The Dickensian . The chronology of Charles Dickens was compiled by Kathleen Tillotson.

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.25

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  Hardcover
  1972

  $13.62

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  $6.79

  A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French Revolution. 'The best story I have written' was Dickens' own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author's unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.