When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody rebellion, when triumph leads to savage vengeance--does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. The result is a powerful story of love, sacrifice, and redemption amid horrific violence and world-changing events.
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424 pages
ISBN-10: 0451530578
Item Weight: 1.1 lbs
Dimensions: 5.35 x 1.17 x 7.96 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 50,001 + ratings
"[A Tale of Two Cities] has the best of Dickens and the worst of Dickens: a dark, driven opening, and a celestial but melodramatic ending; a terrifyingly demonic villainess and (even by Dickens' standards) an impossibly angelic heroine. Though its version of the French Revolution is brutally simplified, its engagement with the immense moral themes of rebirth and terror, justice, and sacrifice gets right to the heart of the matter . . . For every reader in the past hundred and forty years and for hundreds to come, it is an unforgettable ride."--Simon Schama
