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A Tale of Two Cities

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Author(s):Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):Robert Lawson
Publisher(s): Ginn & Co.
Year Published: 1938
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Historical Fiction – Revolutionary
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 371
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 3774854

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A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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Publisher: Chapman and Hall
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