by Charles Dickens · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140373363
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«A Tale of Two Cities» is the historical novel by Charles Dickens, published by Puffin Classics in paperback, abridged edition (384 pages, in English).
During the French Revolution, Charles Darnay, an aristocrat who renounced his inheritance, and Sydney Carton, an English lawyer, both love Lucie Manette. Darnay returns to Paris to save a servant and is condemned by the revolutionary tribunal; his fate becomes intertwined with that of Doctor Manette, released from the Bastille. A story of love, loyalty and sacrifice.
Abridged edition, adapted by Linda Jennings, of the original 1859 novel; this paperback edition was published in 1995.
Ideal for young people aged 12 and over who are approaching the classics in English.
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.
