A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens. - Rilegato

Dickens, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0141196904 ISBN 13: 9780141196909

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2011

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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.

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Recensione:

“[A Tale of Two Cities] has the best of Dickens and the worst of Dickens: a dark, driven opening, and a celestial but melodramatic ending; a terrifyingly demonic villainess and (even by Dickens’ standards) an impossibly angelic heroine. Though its version of the French Revolution is brutally simplified, its engagement with the immense moral themes of rebirth and terror, justice, and sacrifice gets right to the heart of the matter . . . For every reader in the past hundred and forty years and for hundreds to come, it is an unforgettable ride.”–from the Introduction by Simon Schama

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141196904
• ISBN 13: 9780141196909
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Redattore: Maxwell Richard
• Disegnatore: Bickford-Smith Coralie