A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
0760748713
9780760748718
Hardcover
520pp
Classics
Barnes & Noble, 2003
Condition: good with very light edgewear and clean, tight pages. There is some scratching and fading of the gold around the edges. The dust jacket is also in good condition with moderate edgewear at the ends of the spine.
Synopsis: A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’s most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years without trial by the aristocratic authorities. Finally released, he reunited with his daughter, Lucie, who despite her French ancestry has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love the Charles Darnay, another expatriate, who abandoned wealth and title in France because of his political convictions. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant, but there he is arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations. His wife, Lucie, their young daughter, and her aged father follow him across the Channel, thus putting all their lives in danger.
