A Tale of Two Cities Paperback - 1996

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Author: Dickens, Charles
ISBN: 9780198312925

by Charles Dickens

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About this book

Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the bestselling novels of all time, both for the atmosphere that Dickens’ creates and the tension he weaves. Full of love and brutality, A Tale of Two Cities exposes the highs and lows of humanity.

First Edition Identification

A Tale of Two Cities was first published in 31 weekly installments in a journal called All the Year Round between April and November of 1859, and published in a book form in the same year. The publisher of the first book edition was Chapman and Hall, based in London. Original illustrations were done by H. K. Browne on 16 plates inserted into the book. The first edition is a hardcover, octavo book with maroon cloth covers. However, some first editions have had the binding refurbished. A key way to identify first editions of A Tale of Two Cities is that page 213 is misnumbered as “113.” Additionally, affectionately is misspelled as “affetcionately” on line 12, page 134. Finally, the signature “b” is present on the list of plate illustrations.

Details

Title A Tale of Two Cities
Author Charles Dickens
Binding Paperback
Pages 160
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Not Avail
Date November 7, 1996
ISBN 9780198312925 / 019831292X
Reading level 710
Dewey Decimal Code 823.8

About the author

Mike Poulton has written many successful translations and adaptations, including Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," Schiller's "Don Carlos, Luise Miller" and "Wallenstein," and Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," Malory's "Morte D'Arthur," and Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" for the RSC.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.