Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities - 9780415287593

Taylor & Francis

Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two CitiesA Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook\nAuthor(s): Ruth Glancy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415287593, 978-0415287593\nSynopsis\nSince its publication in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has remained the best-known fictional recreation of the French Revolution, and one of Charles Dickenss most exciting novels. A Tale of Two Cities blends a moving love story with the familiar figures of the RevolutionBastille prisoners, a starving Parisian mob, and an indolent aristocracy.\n\nTaking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Dickens's dramatic novel offers:\n\nextensive introductory comment on the contexts and many interpretations of the text, from publication to the present\nannotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself\ncross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts an.