Tale of Two Cities : Penguin English Library
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Author:DICKENS Charles
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ISBN:9780141199702
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Publication Date:June 2012
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Pages:461
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Classics
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Country of Publication:
Tale of Two Cities : Penguin English Library
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Author:DICKENS Charles
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ISBN:9780141199702
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Publication Date:June 2012
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Pages:461
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Classics
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Country of Publication:
Description
Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer - are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer...
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'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!'
Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer - are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer...