A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781543017045)

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. 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 period. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1543017045
ISBN-13: 9781543017045
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2017
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.94d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 135387 / Tale of Two Cities