[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: A Tale of Two Cities is one of the greatest critical realist masterpieces in the world, and one of the novels with the most thrilling and suspenseful plots among the works of the British literary giant Charles Dickens. Dickens is one of the greatest writers in the world, a renowned British novelist, a famous 19th-century critical realist writer, and the most popular writer in 19th-century Britain, hailed by later generations as "a beacon calling people back to laughter and kindness." In his brilliant and vividly descriptive works, Dickens revealed to the world political and social truths that surpassed those revealed by all professional politicians, statesmen, and moralists combined. — Marx I suspect his actual talent far exceeds his natural gifts; he is tied to a terrible locomotive and can never be freed or rest. He frightened me! I don’t understand it. — R. W. Emerson