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Simon & Schuster, April 2004
Enriched Classic Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages
ISBN-10: 0743487605
ISBN-13: 9780743487603
Description
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Dickens's epic novel of freedom, love, and the burning chaos of the French Revolution.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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...Author Charles Dickens was a heavy drinker with a violent temper, and he cheated constantly behind his wifes back, a new book has revealed. As an impoverished youngster living in London, he ...
Huffington Post, December 31, 2009
...its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Decades from now, when we look back at the book business in 2009, it seems likely that we'll see it as a ...
Huffington Post, December 25, 2009
...participate in the American tradition known as last-minute shopping. Last year, I got for then President-elect Barack Obama, Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'. My thinking was, it may be the best of times for Obama, but it was mostly ...
Inside Bay Area, December 24, 2009
...participate in the American tradition known as last-minute shopping. Last year, I got for then President-elect Barack Obama, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities." My thinking was, it may be the best of times for Obama, but it was mostly ...
Broadway World, December 10, 2009
...will appear as narrator of a staged concert performance of the Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Musical nominee "A Tale of Two Cities" currently being broadcast nationally on Public Television stations. The program will air in the New ...
Broadway World, November 18, 2009
...will appear as narrator of a staged concert performance of the Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Musical nominee "A Tale of Two Cities" to be Broadcast Nationally on Public Television beginning on Thanksgiving Day November 26th, 2009 at 9pm. ...
Broadway World, November 18, 2009
...A gala staged concert performance of the Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Musical nominee "A Tale of Two Cities" to be Broadcast Nationally on Public Television beginning on Thanksgiving Day November 26th, 2009 at 9pm. In NY the show will be ...
Times Online, September 26, 2009
...passionately in love with a woman he cannot have is at the heart of his fiction — A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend. It is an intriguing idea, and typical of the watchfulness with which this fine biography ...
Observer, September 21, 2009
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Tonight South Africa, July 17, 2009
...JENNY HANDLEY 'It was the best of times, It was the worst of times?' These profound words by Charles Dickens in his Tale of Two Cities inspired the title of Penny Vincenzi's latest blockbuster, The Best of Times. While her plot is ostensibly ...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, July 7, 2009
...if Barney hadn?t met Emma at the hospital? 10. An allusion to the famous first line of Charles Dickens? A Tale of Two Cities, the title of this novel could be interpreted as ironic. Do you think some of the characters? lives were ultimately ...
Examiner.com, June 22, 2009
...those she was writing about. For instance, in the second chapter, Roach writes about resurrectionists (a character in Charles Dickens?s Tale of Two Cities is employed in just such a line of work). In order to get enough bodies to work on, ...
IOL, March 20, 2009
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Edmonton Sun, March 19, 2009
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The Hindu, March 19, 2009
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WRAL, March 19, 2009
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Ledger-Enquirer, March 19, 2009
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