The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities'
Title | The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities' PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sanders |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2021-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000384756 |
This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots. It also explores the aspects of Dickens’s life, especially his interest in private theatricals, which contributed to the genesis of the novel. For the first time the historical sources for the very individual account of the French Revolution presented in A Tale of Two Cities are examined, and the book investigates the novelist’s debt to French and English eye-witnesses. This Companion identifies the multitude of allusions to what Dickens often regarded as the whims of eighteenth-century justice, religion, philosophy, fashion and society. It provides the modern reader with both fundamental sources of information and a fascinating account of the creation of a complex historical novel.
Readings on A Tale of Two Cities
Title | Readings on A Tale of Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Don Nardo |
Publisher | Greenhaven Press, Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | France |
ISBN | 9781565106499 |
Includes a brief biography of Charles Dickens, this book presents essays that provide a wide variety of information and opinion about A Tale of Two Cities.
A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))
Title | A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)) PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2021-04-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
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 depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he 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. 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.
A Companion to Charles Dickens
Title | A Companion to Charles Dickens PDF eBook |
Author | David Paroissien |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0470691220 |
A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing
Lancelot
Title | Lancelot PDF eBook |
Author | Walker Percy |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2011-03-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1453216170 |
DIVDIV“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —The New York Times Book Review/divDIV/divDIVFed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world’s ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife—an actress who he suspects has been cheating on him for years. Though he initially plans only to gather proof of her infidelity, Lancelot quickly descends into a fog of obsession. And as he crosses the line from sanity into madness, he will try once and for all to purify the world or destroy it in the attempt./divDIV /divDIVMesmerizing and unforgettable, Lancelot is a masterful story of one man’s collision with the follies of modern culture, and a thought-provoking look at the nature of good and evil./div /div
A Tale of Two Cities
Title | A Tale of Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | Executions and executioners |
ISBN |
Presents Dickens' classic novel of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution. During the French Revolution a sissolute English lawyer goes to th eguillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves.
A Tale of Two Cities
Title | A Tale of Two Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781853260391 |
A classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.