A Tale of Two Cities
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| Author(s): | Charles Dickens |
| Illustrator(s): | Hablot K. Browne |
| Publisher(s): | Chapman and Hall |
| Year Published: | 1859 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | British Fiction - Novel Historical Fiction - Napoleonic Wars |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 254 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| ISBN-10: | 0192823329 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780192823328 |
| OCLC: | 847457360 |
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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” Read online at archive.org.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1938)
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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