A Tale of Two Cities - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141325542 ISBN 13 : 9780141325545

Editeur : Puffin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

By Dickens, Charles ( Author ) [ A Tale of Two Cities By Mar-2009 Paperback

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The storming of the Bastille ...the death carts with their doomed human cargo ...the swift drop of the guillotine Made-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 tune of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, lie casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with unforgettable characters : the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; the heroic Sydney Carton, who gives his life for the love of a woman who would never be his.

Revue de presse

“[A Tale of Two Cities] has the best of Dickens and the worst of Dickens: a dark, driven opening, and a celestial but melodramatic ending; a terrifyingly demonic villainess and (even by Dickens’ standards) an impossibly angelic heroine. Though its version of the French Revolution is brutally simplified, its engagement with the immense moral themes of rebirth and terror, justice, and sacrifice gets right to the heart of the matter . . . For every reader in the past hundred and forty years and for hundreds to come, it is an unforgettable ride.”–from the Introduction by Simon Schama

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Puffin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141325542
• ISBN 13: 9780141325545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480