Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping and chipping to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board still full and vivid. Minor sunning to bottom and foredge of textblock. Top edge of textblock gilt. Interior pages are bright and clean.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
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Inventory number (O1-49).
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5537
- Title
- Tale of Two Cities
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Format/Binding
- Half Bound in Leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- National Library Association
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
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