A Tale of Two Cities. A Story of the French Revolution: A Novel in Three Books21. 4. 2015 - Počet stran: 179 «A Tale of Two Cities» (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. The ebook «A Tale of Two Cities» from Animedia Company contains 35 beautiful black-and-white illustrations by «Phiz» (Hablot Knight Browne), Felix Octavius Carr Darley and Edmund Henry Garrett. |
