A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a classic novel published by Barnes & Noble Classics in 2004, featuring 409 pages in English. This edition is part of a series that aims to provide quality literature at accessible prices, complete with new scholarship and thoughtful design elements. The narrative is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, exploring themes of love, sacrifice, and the human condition through the experiences of its characters.
Readers will find a vivid portrayal of the tumultuous events of the era, including the storming of the Bastille and the chaos that ensues. Central to the story is Sydney Carton, whose journey from a dissolute attorney to a figure of redemption highlights the novel’s exploration of family life and city life during a period of upheaval. This edition includes various features designed to enhance understanding, such as footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies, making it a valuable resource for both students and general readers interested in historical fiction and literary classics.
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A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
- New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars
- Biographies of the authors
- Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
- Comments by other famous authors
- Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations
- Bibliographies for further reading
- Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences–biographical, historical, and literary–to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras–the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.
One of Dickens’s most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities is a stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.
Gillen D’Arcy Wood received his Ph.D in English from Columbia University in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860.
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