A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0007382545
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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0007382545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 2014-09-18
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9781501091391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis premium quality unabridged large print edition features a large 7.44"x9.69" page size and is printed on heavyweight 60# bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and modern design and page layout exemplify the attention to detail given this collector-quality volume. Also included is an original biography of Charles Dickens, discussing the life, work, and lasting influence of this literary titan. Widely regarded as Dickens' finest work and the quintessential Victorian coming-of-age tale, Great Expectations was originally published in serial form between December 1860 and August 1861. In response to contemporary literary criticism asserting that the story was "too sad", Dickens later rewrote the ending. In keeping with long-standing tradition, this volume follows the 1874 edition, published as a full-length novel with the modified ending. This is by far the most widely read and best-known edition, and the version which has become a timeless classic. The tale follows the life of an orphan, "Pip," from his childhood in the vicinity of the Kentish marshes to London and back again. Pip crosses paths with Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict and one of Dickens' most noteworthy characters, the well-off but unbalanced Miss Havisham, still wearing the wedding dress in which she was abandoned on her wedding day, and her beautiful adopted daughter Estella. Pip has a loyal friend in Joe, the brother-in-law who takes him on as an apprentice, where he is working when, Mr. Jaggers, the lawyer, informs him that he is to receive a large sum from an anonymous benefactor and must immediately travel to London. As the real relationships and identities of the characters are revealed over the course of the story, Pip discovers that things are sometimes not at all what they appear, and Dickens delves into themes of love, loyalty, honesty and revenge. Born in Portsmouth England on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens enjoyed a comfortable childhood until his father lost his post at the Navy Pay Office, ultimately landing in debtors' prison. Young Charles endured an horrific experience pasting labels on jars of bootblack in a rat-infested slum and living in an attic. He would later teach himself shorthand and find work as a newspaper writer, covering politics and then the courts. These experiences, with his near-photographic memory, would provide him with material for the colorful characters and vivid depictions of life in England which characterized his work for decades. The publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836, the world's first true literary phenomenon, brought Dickens success, and within a few years he was an international celebrity. Ultimately he would become the foremost novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most widely read writers in history. His books have never gone out of print, have been turned into films and plays, and are still widely read today. Known for his compelling storylines and unforgettable characters, Dickens' stories also served as vehicles for social commentary, often harshly critical of class stratification and public institutions but without the strident or didactic tone that might have alienated readers. In particular, and contrary to the prevailing views of the time, Dickens viewed the poor as wretched not because of their own weaknesses and moral failures but because of their helplessness before society's attitudes and institutions. Yet Dickens managed, even when dealing with grim and serious subject-matter, to maintain a humorous element, and satire and caricature fill the pages of his works. Dickens died on June 9, 1870, following a stroke. Given the body of work he left behind, it is striking to note that Charles Dickens was just 58 years old at his death.
Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 774
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 320
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 416
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Publisher: Usborne Books
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780794523190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust before France's bloody revolution, watch the drama unfold through the eyes of Lucie, Charles and Sidney, three people whose lives are about to change forever.
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0143128302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world’s response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances. Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means. They shed light on the subterranean lives of homeless people who must find a bed in the city’s tunnels; the stresses that gentrification can bring to neighbors in a Brooklyn apartment block; the shenanigans of seriously alienated night-shift paralegals; the trials of a housing defendant standing up for tenants’ rights; and the humanity that survives in the midst of a deeply divided city. Tales of Two Cities is a brilliant, moving, and ultimately galvanizing clarion call for a city—and a nation—in crisis.
Author: Charles. Dickens
Publisher: Harper Muse
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781400341863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe beloved historical novel is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for lovers of classic fiction, readers in high-school and college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. The A Tale of Two Cities softcover edition: Presents Charles Dickens's famed historical novel set during the French Revolution, regarded by many literary scholars as one of the bestselling novels of all time; its 1859 publication helped secure Dickens's place in literature's pantheon of great writers. Explores such important themes as violence, duality, resurrection, revolution, and the significance of women's roles in social change. Is ideal for Dickens aficionados, fans of literary fiction and classic literature, and people who love both the book and the cinematic adaptations it inspired. Whether you're buying this as a gift or as a self-purchase, this remarkable edition features: Beautiful softcover Distinctive decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes distributed throughout Part of a 4-volume collection including Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr. Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie in London. However, there he meets two very different men, connected through their love for Lucie Manette. Drawn against their will to Paris at the height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, they all soon fall under the lethal, far-reaching shadow of "La Guillotine." An affordable edition ideal for your favorite classic fiction lover, literature student, or fan of annual reading challenges.
Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 2020-04-26
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo classics in one! Wonderfully spread out in one, annotated and illustrated, compact volume. Many vintage books are increasingly scarce and expensive. We published this volume in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a biography of the author.Includes: A Christmas Carol (1843)A Tale of Two Cities (1859