A Tale of Two Cities (Romance Classics)

CONVENIENT BOOK SIZE 5 х 8 IN ♥ LARGE FONT ♥ BEST GIFT The Telegraph and The Guardian claim that it is one of the best-selling novels of all time. World Cat listed 1,529 editions of the work, including 1,305 print editions. ✓ At the 1984 Democratic National Convention in the US, the keynote speaker Mario Cuomo of New York delivered a scathing criticism of then-President Ronald Reagan’s comparison of the United States to a “”shining city on a hill”” with an allusion to Dickens’ novel, saying: “”Mr President, you ought to know that this nation is more a Tale of Two Cities than it is just a ‘Shining City on a Hill’.”” ✓ A Tale of Two Cities served as an inspiration to the 2012 Batman film The Dark Knight Rises by Christopher Nolan. The character of Bane is in part inspired by Dickens’ Madame Defarge: He organises kangaroo court trials against the ruling elite of the city of Gotham and is seen knitting in one of the trial scenes like Madame Defarge. There are other hints to Dickens’ novel, such as Talia al Ghul being obsessed with revenge and having a close relationship to the hero, and Bane’s catchphrase “”the fire rises”” as an ode to one of the book’s chapters. Bane’s associate Barsard is named after a supporting character in the novel. In the film’s final scene, Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) reads aloud the closing lines of Sydney Carton’s inner monologue—””It’s a far far better thing I do than I have ever done, it’s a far far better rest I go to than I have ever known””—directly from the novel. ✓ In DC Entertainment’s show Titans, Beast Boy, portrayed by Ryan Potter, reads part of the opening paragraph of Book 1, Chapter 1 — The Period, in season 2, episode 9 titled “”Atonement””. He is shown reading it to an unconscious Conner who is recovering from a previous injury. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens’ new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. From April 1859 to November 1859, Dickens also republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. All but three of Dickens’ previous novels had appeared as monthly instalments prior to publication as books. The first weekly instalment of A Tale of Two Cities ran in the first issue of All the Year Round on 30 April 1859. The last ran 30 weeks later, on 26 November. A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle’s history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton’s sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess—the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and for Carton’s last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, “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.” —- ISBN: 9798509036217