| Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities Contributor(s): Narthex (Editor), Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1724915282 ISBN-13: 9781724915283 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.03 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Tale of Two Cities contrasts the social and political events taking place in Paris and London during (and prior to) the French Revolution in the mid-to-late eighteenth century. Dickens draws unsettling parallels between the two cities, describing abject poverty, appalling starvation, rampant crime, ruthless capital punishment, and aristocratic greed. The novel, which was published in three books during the mid-nineteenth century, retrospectively questions the degree to which the French revolutionaries of the late eighteenth century upheld Enlightenment-era ideals of rational thought, tolerance, constitutional government, and liberty. |