by Charles Dickens · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140111446
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«A Tale of Two Cities» is the historical novel by Charles Dickens, published by Penguin in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The action takes place in France and England in the eighteenth century, during the French Revolution. The novel follows Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and the lawyer Sydney Carton, whose lives are shaken by the events of the era. Dickens combines social upheaval with a story of love, sacrifice, and redemption.
This Penguin Classics edition appeared in 1989 and includes an introduction by George Woodcock and illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). The novel was originally published in 1859.
For readers of classic and historical fiction, with an interest in nineteenth-century English literature and the French Revolution.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
