Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities Literary Touchstone Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Dickens's complex approach to the human condition.Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities remains one of Western literature's most powerful stories of sacrificial love, redemption, and the devastation spread by obsessive justice. Having fled Paris for the relative safety and security of London, Dr. Manette, his daughter Lucie, and Charles Darnay are irresistibly lured into a whirlwind of events that threaten to shatter their lives'until a hopeless drunkard remembers the promise he once made to the only woman he ever loved. Dickens originally published A Tale of Two Cities in weekly installments, ensuring that his readers would return to read each new segment. The collected chapters have continued to excite and move readers for over a century.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities Teacher s Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You need a copy of the books you're teaching, but standard student editions just don't cut it. Get a leg up with new Literary Touchstone Teacher's Editions—the full text of a classic novel with notes for discussion, literary terms, background notes, and more.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities Spotlight Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prestwick House is proud to offer our Spotlight Editions? ? thoughtful, intelligent adaptations of some of the world's greatest literature. Each Spotlight -Edition? maintains the rich integrity of the original work while adapting the language to be more accessible to the average high school student.In addition to providing a more readable text, Prestwick House Spotlight Editions? are enhanced, providing your students with? thoughtful guided reading questions and margin notes to help students -navigate the text;? suggestions for thought and discussion;? research opportunities for richer understanding of the text and its contexts;? suggested writing activities to foster deeper thinking.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dover edition is an unabridged republication of a standard edition of A tale of two cities, plus literary analysis and perspectives from MAXnotes for A tale of two cities, published by Research and Education Association, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1994.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Delphi Classics Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Charles Dickens’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Dickens includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Dickens’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens's work.In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities In Plain and Simple English written by Charles Dickens and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities” is considered one of the greatest novels ever wrote. It also can be difficult to understand--it is loaded with themes, imagery, and symbols. If you need a little help understanding it, let BookCaps help with this study guide. Along with chapter-by-chapter summaries and analysis, this book features the full text of Dicken's classic novel is also included. BookCap Study Guides are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.
Download or read book Great Expectations Literary Touchstone Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic? includes a glossary and reader?s notes to help the modern reader contend with Dickens? complex approach to the human condition.The first installment of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens? ?lucky thirteenth novel,? appeared in December 1860 and has been delighting readers ever since. An anonymous benefactor plucks young Pip from his life of toil as a blacksmith?s apprentice and thrusts him into London society as a ?gentleman of great expectations.? When a mysterious figure from his forgotten past re-emerges, however, every assumption on which Pip based his hopes is exposed as a delusion. How can Pip make amends to the loved ones he left behind, and how can he hope to ever win the affection of the woman he loves, but who is now forever beyond his reach?Great Expectations contains some of Dickens? most memorable characters?the affable blacksmith Joe Gargery, the beautiful yet haughty Estella, the enigmatic Miss Havihsam, and the menacing convict, Magwitch?and puts a uniquely Dickensian spin on the age-old Cinderella story.
Download or read book Macbeth Literary Touchstone Classic written by William Shakespeare and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Christmas Carol Teacher s Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You need a copy of the books you're teaching, but standard student editions just don't cut it. Get a leg up with new Literary Touchstone Teacher's Editions—the full text of a classic novel with notes for discussion, literary terms, background notes, and more.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grim tale of the people who were caught up in the wave of violence and murder which marked the French Revolution.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities written by Ch. Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities by Ch. Dickens. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say," without any doubt this book can be considered a Classic This book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales."
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Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Annotated Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens published his twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, in his own literary journal called All the Year Round in weekly installments from April to November of 1859. He got the germ of the idea for the novel from a play by Wilkie Collins called The Frozen Deep, in which he played the self-sacrificing hero. Dickens decided to transplant the emotive issue of self-sacrifice onto the time period of the French Revolution, and he modeled Sydney Carton after Collins's hero. To ensure that his novel would be as historically accurate as possible, Dickens pored over his friend Thomas Carlyle's classic history of the French Revolution.
Download or read book CliffsNotes on Dickens A Tale of Two Cities written by Marie Kalil and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on A Tale of Two Cities, you experience one of Charles Dickens's most important works as he recounts the horrors of the French Revolution in what amounts to a cautionary tale warning of the possibility of revolution in 18th-century England. From its first line ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times") to its last ("It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"), Dickens's novel of revolution, sacrifice, and redemption continues to captivate modern imaginations. Chapter summaries and commentaries lead you through Dickens's "Tale," and critical essays give you insight into the women of A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of the main characters A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters A section on the life and background of Charles Dickens A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 1787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized 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. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
