A Tale of Two Cities

Full leather binding, c1908. Charles Dickens' novel of the French Revolution

Author

Charles Dickens, illustrated by Hablot K Browne (Phiz)

Publisher

Walter Scott Publishing Co, Ltd, London and Felling on Tyne, 1908

Printing Details

Undated, c1908. Hardback, full leather school prize binding, tree calf boards, marbled page edges. 18.5 × 12cm, 349pp

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Condition

An attractive copy, light wear to the leather. A previous owner has made marginal pencil annotations throughout which do not affect the reading of the book. Prize label to front pastedown (awarded to Frances Mary Griffiths of Llandrindod Wells Intermediate School in October 1908).

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