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A Tale of Two Cities
ISBN: 9780140430547 | 0140430547
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pub. Date: 9/30/1970
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The timeless classic of love and sacrifice during the French Revolution! With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his tale with such memorable characters as the evil Madame Defarge and her knitted patterns of death, the gentle Lucie Manette and her unfailing devotion to her downtrodden father, and the courageous Sydney Carton, who would give his own love--and life--for a woman that would never be his.
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| A Dickens Chronology | p. xxxiv |
| A Timeline | p. xxxviii |
| Further Reading | p. xli |
| A Note on the Text | p. xlviii |
| A Tale of two Cities | p. 1 |
| On the Illustrations | p. 391 |
| Dedication and Preface to First Volume Edition | p. 397 |
| Dickens and His Sources | p. 399 |
| ... MORE | p. 444 |
| Notes | p. 448 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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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