A Tale Of Two Cities [Hardcover]

Dickens sets this novel between London and Paris in the years around the French Revolution, following a family drawn back into a past they had tried to leave behind in France. This hardcover edition from Penguin Select Classics runs 400 pages. The book is shorter and tighter than most of Dickens's work, with less comic sprawl and more forward drive, and it turns on the doubling of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, two men whose resemblance eventually decides the ending. Revolutionary Paris is drawn as crowd, tribunal and queue rather than as pageant, which is part of why the closing chapters still land. What to expect: • Hardcover binding, 400 pages, Penguin Select Classics • One of the shortest and most tightly plotted Dickens novels • Moves between London and revolutionary Paris • A familiar opening and closing passage in English literature Suited to readers of Victorian fiction and to anyone wanting a durable hardcover of Dickens, published under Penguin Select Classics and available at Boipoka.