A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

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The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

‘Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!’

Described by Dickens as ‘the best story I have written’, A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men – an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer – are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer…

The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Softcover, in immaculate condition, internally fresh and clean free from inscriptions, cover beautiful and bright, could pass for a like new condition brilliant copy

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SKU: 9780141199702 Category: Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2000
ISBN10: 0141199709
ISBN13: 9780141199702
Condition: Mint
Format: Softcover
Inventory No: 1108

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The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

‘Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!’

Described by Dickens as ‘the best story I have written’, A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men – an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer – are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer…

The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Softcover, in immaculate condition, internally fresh and clean free from inscriptions, cover beautiful and bright, could pass for a like new condition brilliant copy

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Weight 0.33 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.1 cm

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