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A Tale of Two Cities Paperback – December 4, 2020

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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” ― Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction.

Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themesimprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.

Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is claimed to be one of the best-selling novels of all time with purported sales of an estimated 200 million copies. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television,radio, and the stage, and has continued to have an influence on popular culture.

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Arguably one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens is the author of such literary masterpieces as A Tale of Two Cities (1859), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), and The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839), among many others. Dickens s indelible characters and timeless stories continue to resonate with readers around the world more than 130 years after his death. Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 4, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1503219704
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1503219700
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.

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Cori Loggans
5.0 out of 5 stars Large print
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022
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Bought it for school, and it was well-formatted.
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Kathleen T Trandem
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a classic
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2021
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I hadn't read this book since my freshmen year in high school. That was may years ago. It isn't an easy book to read, but I'm not 10 years old either.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2021
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But I like Charles Dickens a lot. And what's not to like about a story that has love, hate, revenge and plenty of excitement!
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Kristy Short
4.0 out of 5 stars This is for a school assignment.
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2019
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A Tale of Two Cities is a wonderful story, with a wonderful plot but is quite challenging to read. The writing style is confusing at times and makes it hard to read but the overall plot is amazing. Dickens tells two stories throughout the book, the stories of the two cities. The perspective and story changes, and many times the transitions are unclear. Despite the transitions being hard to catch and may require rereading, the two stories progress in harmony, never giving away too much plot details that would take away from the suspense. The suspense in this book is mainly mild or none at all, there are only a few times when the suspense climaxes. The character development is most apparent in Dr. Manette, Sydney Carton, and Mrs. Defarge, but the “character development” is a built up situation revealing hidden personalities or actions. Dickens uses a lot of foreshadowing, symbolism, and motifs and writes using vocabulary and grammar from a different century, all of this adds to the challenge of reading and comprehending.
Dickens also has a very unusual way of writing descriptions, setting scenes, and scenes that are vital to the plot. The lengths of many less important scenes in comparison to the obviously important scenes are unfitting. Dickens wrote an entire chapter describing a street in Paris outside a wine shop, then a few chapters later wrote a court scene in one chapter. This seems unfitting as the court scene is important to the plot and is the first chapter in the story to be interesting, entertaining, and gives the reader a feeling of suspense. When reading the book it feels like Dickens spends most of the book setting the scene, and going into unnecessary details. The most interesting and important passages and chapters feel like the shortest parts of the book. In chapters where Dickens is overly describing something, or going into depth of a minor characters backstory, the book can be quite boring, making it even harder to read. On the flip side, the faster paced passages that included parts that are crucial to the plot captures your attention.
I think this book was written for High Schoolers and older. I think people who are into history, realistic fiction, or classical literature would enjoy this book. I would recommend this book to a few people, but most definitely not to everyone.
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Nicole J
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great literature by Dickens!
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2020
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My children love this book and shared each chapter with me. The book is obviously advanced and filled with old literature devices. I recommend use Sparksnote No Fear translation along with this book!
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Peggy Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars What better plot than a man who gives up his life ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2016
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Classic for a Reason! What better plot than a man who gives up his life for another?
Memorable quotes " It is a far,far better thing I do, than I have ever done."
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D smith
3.0 out of 5 stars NO INDENTION
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2020
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Maybe it’s just me, but whenever a book has very little to no indention, it becomes even more difficult to read. the font size isn’t too bad, and it’s easy to read, but the lack of paragraph spacing and indention on new paragraphs makes this a difficult book to read imo
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Amazon Kunde
1.0 out of 5 stars Schade
Reviewed in Germany on November 25, 2023
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Keine schöne Haptik... Glänzendes Papier, nicht so wie ein Buch sein soll.
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MAH
5.0 out of 5 stars Un classique à avoir
Reviewed in France on April 25, 2021
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Un bon contenu qui en intéressera plus d'un
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Atria Black
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Abridged (as far as I can tell), Good quality paperback
Reviewed in India on August 11, 2017
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Obviously, the book is great, it's a classic. The quality of the book is good, the text is big enough, the cover is nice... most importantly it does not seem to be an abridged version.
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Laetitia G.
1.0 out of 5 stars Édition à eviter
Reviewed in France on March 14, 2021
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Très mauvaise édition. Quelle déception.
Aucune note, rien.
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Michael DeBusk
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible quality
Reviewed in Germany on August 5, 2020
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Avoid these privately published public domain books. They give no attention to typesetting, spelling errors, or really anything. Just copy and paste jobs.
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