TY - BOOK AU - Dickens, Charles AU - Sanders, Andrew, ed. TI - A tale of two cities T2 - Oxford World's Classics SN - 0192833901 U1 - 823.8 PY - 1994/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English Literature KW - English Fiction KW - France KW - England--London KW - France--Paris KW - Executions and executioners KW - Lookalikes KW - French fiction KW - Fathers and daughters KW - British N2 - A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal ER -