Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781724915283)

A Tale of Two Cities contrasts the social and political events taking place in Paris and London during (and prior to) the French Revolution in the mid-to-late eighteenth century. Dickens draws unsettling parallels between the two cities, describing abject poverty, appalling starvation, rampant crime, ruthless capital punishment, and aristocratic greed. The novel, which was published in three books during the mid-nineteenth century, retrospectively questions the degree to which the French revolutionaries of the late eighteenth century upheld Enlightenment-era ideals of rational thought, tolerance, constitutional government, and liberty.

Author: Narthex,Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1724915282
ISBN-13: 9781724915283
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2018
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d