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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities( )
Author: Dickens, Charles
Introduction by: Busch, Frederick
Afterword by: Wilson, A. N.
ISBN:978-0-451-53057-8
Publication Date:Feb 2007
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Signet
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $6.95
Book Description:

The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade-this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy...
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Book Details
Pages:416
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Family Life / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.212 x 6.708 x 1.131 Inches
Book Weight:0.462 Pounds
Author Biography
Dickens, Charles (Author)
Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s.

His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities.

Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

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