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The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

''Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!''

Described by Dickens as ''the best story I have written'', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer - are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer...

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 26/04/2012
    ISBN13: 9780141199702, 978-0141199702
    ISBN10: 0141199709
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

    ''Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!''

    Described by Dickens as ''the best story I have written'', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer - are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer...

    The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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