A Tale of Two Cities - Illustrated
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01KU65BWU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Certainly not the Penguin Classics edition. Use the proper photo of the edition." according to Charles P. Fraser. It would have been a more fair and honest representation of this edition had the seller not used the Penguin Classics cover of the novel. I stupidly purchased this item without looking at the details of the edition. It is NOT the Penguin Classics edition. Now I have to buy another copy of the novel in. Amazing novel, but font too small on this book coloradostevie The novel is great, this is not a review of the novel. This particular book/product is the paperback from Barnes and Noble classics. I really appreciated the intro which includes the history surrounding the time of the novel. However, the print of this book is very small; I usually don't have problems. Such a good story M. Heiss I love this story.I'm a read aloud mom with a family of boys, and they LOVED this story! Very enthusiastic listening.The thing with Dickens is all the characters are people. Every one is a portrait and a caricature at the same time. My kids drew while I read this aloud to them.A great story about the
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
Vance's stone varies from soothing to animated while creating different voices for the characters and using appropriate accents. All rights reserved. A bonus feature on the last CD is an e-book in pdf format that can be printed or used as a read-along while listening to the audio. The voice of Audie Award-winning narrator Simon Vance sets the tone for the characters and creates the Dickensesqe mood of the times when the rich and the poor were far apart and no one was exempt from the ensuing wrath during the Revolution. . From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up—