A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens, Hardcover

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There 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 lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.70w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780141196909
Age Range: 18-UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.7
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 719 / Tale of Two Cities (Unabridged)

About the Author
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Richard Maxwell teaches in the Comparative Literature & English departments at Yale.