A Tale of Two Cities: Illustrated by Phiz and Frederick Barnard

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A Tale of Two Cities: Illustrated by Phiz and Frederick Barnard - Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities: Illustrated by Phiz and Frederick Barnard - Paperback

by Charles Dickens
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by Charles Dickens (Author), Andrei Baltakmens (Introduction by)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

In 1775 Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter Lucie after having been locked away in the Bastille for 18 years. Lucie nurtures her half-mad father back to health, but their troubles are far from over, as their lives become entangled with Charles Darnay, the emigrant son of the Marquis St. Evrémonde; the ne'er-do-well Sydney Carton, and the vengeful Monsieur and Madame Defarge. Set against the terror and turmoil of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most enduring works-a historical adventure of high drama and profound depth.

This Top Five Classics edition of Charles Dickens's immortal A Tale of Two Cities includes the original unabridged text, more than 40 illustrations from the 1859 first edition by "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne) and from the 1872 edition by Frederick Barnard. In addition, it features a foreword by Dickens scholar and novelist Andrei Baltakmens (author of The Raven's Seal and A Hangman for Ghosts).

Number of Pages: 354
Dimensions: 0.79 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: December 25, 2020
ISBN9780985278786
Author Charles Dickens
PublisherTop Five Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages354
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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