A Tale of Two Cities
$24.46
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2008
Summary
As the bicentennial of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens’ historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of view, showing how private experience relates to public history. Dickens’ characters are fictional, and their political activity is minimal, yet all are drawn towards the Paris of the Terror…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199536238 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199536236 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Andrew Sanders |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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‘The large clear print, very full notes, and inclusion of Dickens’s number plans make it the best paperback available for student use.‘Professor Norman Page, University of Nottingham
‘I shall treasure the richly detailed explanatory notes. It’s an edition which will surely sell to the general reader; yet many truer Dickens specialists than I will be excited by the scope and subtlety of the introduction.‘Dr P. Merchant, Christ Church College, Canterbury’The large clear print, very full notes, and inclusion of Dickens’s number plans make it the best paperback available for student use.‘Professor Norman Page, University of Nottingham`I read it every other year. It is the best story of the best hero. It does not pale.‘You (Mail on Sunday Magazine)
About The Author
Charles Dickens
Andrew Sanders is a lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, London. He is Honorary Editor of The Dickensian, and editor of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, and Sylvia’s Lovers by Mrs Gaskell, both in The World’s Classics series.
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