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Kurzbeschreibung:

During the French revolution, a young Englishman gives up his life to save the husband of the woman he loves

Klappentext:

As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of view, showing how private experience relates to public history. Dickens characters are fictional, and their political activity is minimal, yet all are drawn
towards the Paris of the Terror, and all become caught up in its web of human suffering and human sacrifice.
This edition includes extensive explanatory notes giving crucial background information about the Revolution and Dickens sources.
`the best story I have written Charles Dickens
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Rezension:

I shall treasure the richly detailed explanatory notes. Its an edition which will surely sell to the general reader; yet many truer Dickens specialists than I will be excited by the scope and subtlety of the introduction. Dr P. Merchant, Christ Church College, Canterbury