A tale of two cities
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1994Description: xxx,524pISBN: 0192833901Subject(s): English Literature | English Fiction | France | England--London | France--Paris | Executions and executioners | Lookalikes | French fiction | Fathers and daughters | BritishDDC classification: 823.8 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BK | Stack | Stack | 823.8 DIC/T (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 08834 |
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.
There are no comments on this title.