A Tale of Two Cities (Annotated, Special 200th Birthday Issue)
Annotated with:*Guide to Dickens 2012, an international celebration of the author's life and work marking the bicentenary of his birth.*Biographical preface.*Critical introduction.In "A Tale of Two Cities," Charles Dickens splits the action between London and Paris during the French Revolution....
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Annotated with:*Guide to Dickens 2012, an international celebration of the author's life and work marking the bicentenary of his birth.*Biographical preface.*Critical introduction.In "A Tale of Two Cities," Charles Dickens splits the action between London and Paris during the French Revolution. With its love triangle set amid social upheaval, the novel is not only one of Dickens’ most enduringly popular works, it's one of the most popular books ever written, with sales reportedly in excess of 200 million copies.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781620580110
Publish date: January 29th 2012
Publisher: doubleplus editions LLC
Pages no: 366
Edition language: English
The list of ‘classic books’ yet to fill my waking hours is long, but whilst I am embarked on a lengthy (albeit belated) campaign to put that right, I was inspired to elevate this Dickens novel based on a recommendation read in ‘The Big Issue’. Alas, I don’t remember the name of the celebrity endorse...
I read A Tale of Two Cities in high school and remembered only a few major characters, the setting, and of course, the knitting. Rereading it after decades of immersion in more recent fiction, I was intrigued by things I never questioned or noticed as a high school junior. The omniscient narrator ...
It's true, and I hate to say that I didn't like it, because I am a Dickens fan through and through. But this was a tough one for me, probably because I never connected with any of the characters enough to really care about them. Miss Pross was my favorite -- she actually DID something worth rootin...
I'd somehow, up to this point, never read A Tale of Two Cities. I know, I can't believe it either. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and the years leading up to it, this is, at its very core, a romance novel. I was a little shocked by that, but I certainly didn't mind. Dickens's writ...
Not my favorite by Dickens, but still a good novel.
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