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A tale of two cities,

Author: Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne; Frederick Barnard
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1942.
Series: Great illustrated classics
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their  Read more...
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Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne; Frederick Barnard
OCLC Number: 1689734
Description: v, [6] p., 1 l., 353 p. front., plates. 23 cm.
Series Title: Great illustrated classics
Responsibility: by Charles Dickens, with illustrations from drawings by "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne) and Fred. Barnard, together with an introductory sketch by May Lamberton Becker.

Abstract:

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine. This edition uses the text as it appeared in its first serial publication in 1859 to convey the full scope of Dickens's vision, and includes the original illustrations by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). Richard Maxwell's introduction discusses the intricate interweaving of epic drama with personal tragedy.

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