A Tale of Two Cities - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1563120461 ISBN 13 : 9781563120466

Editeur : Perfection Learning, 1994

Synopsis

RO40085861. A TALE OF TWO CITIES. 1963. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur bon état. 378 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Perfection Learning
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1563120461
• ISBN 13: 9781563120466
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible