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A Tale of Two Cities
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $7.45
Manufacturer: CreateSpace
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Description
This is a quality, 6 x 9 version of Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two Cities. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness... It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..."
Reviews
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-29
Summary: "Overrated "classic""
Sure, the story has some twists at the end, but I find the language arcane as well as archaic. The story-telling is cumbersome and sometime confusing; there are large chunks of narratives about irrelevant details (such as the chapter "The lion and the jackal", it does little to advance the plot). The dialogues are pretentious and unnatural -- the characters speak with a lot of parenthesized texts. The actions of the people are also to some extent unexplained and unexplainable: why does Carton sacrifice himself to save Darnay? Because of his love for Lucie? At the end he is portrayed as some larger-than-life hero and martyr, but I find some hollowness and unbelievability in that.
Dickens' contemporaries and French counterparts, Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas, who also wrote a few books using the same backdrop (the French Revolution). I think they are both better writers and story-tellers.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-14
Summary: "Never read this in high school or college"
I don't think I can say anything about this book that hasn't been said. I thought the characters, the plot and the historical backdrop were terrific. I'm not sure why I never read this in school, even as an English major. This is the kind of book that will stay with me forever.
Having said that, I don't think most high schoolers could ever fully appreciate this book. I read this at the same time as my 10th grader, who did not enjoy it. I think it's a struggle for most younger readers to understand the plot and Dickens' writing style. If you have to read it for school, try to appreciate it and think about reading it again when you are older - it is very much worth the effort!
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-08-09
Summary: "Histoical Sentimental Trivia"
This novel was published in weekly installments. I think Dickens was a bit absentminded in the first two books, because the plot is quite weak and flickering. In book three the intensity grows and resembles more a normal novel. The content of this novel is the most commonplace sentimental trivia. But apparently it has met the tastes of the audience at the time. Dickens is supposed to be a great writer, right? It's quite amazing that he could pour out this kitchy sentimental romantic trivia. Was he just calculating on the limited minds and romantic dispositions of his female audience to increase his sales? Or was he, after all, not that great a writer?
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-02
Summary: "A Lifetime"
"A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel many have read and others have claimed to have read, but is completely appreciated by few. A work of historical fiction, this may be Dickens' best known work and most often quoted work. Where "Great Expectations" lacks realism, "A Tale of Two Cities" follows a record of historical events. Being so well crafted, it is remarkable the novel was written under the duress of constant deadlines. Following the deadlines of a serial, it would seem easy to digress into fluff.
Protagonist Charles Darnay is caught between the parallels of England and France, nobility and peasantry. Though the wording is very plodding at times, readers will expect some twists and be surprised by others. Taking an unlikely bride, Darnay would seem to have reached an equilibrium. But two trials for treason lead to revelations that threaten to tear all that is sacred from him.
Known as the villain, Madame Defarge may hold a reputation with some before reading the book. Yet plot details are able to reveal her as a sympthetic character. However, the vile nature of her plotting ultimately corrupts this glimmer.
With themes of social justice and the French Revolution in the background, historians have come to aprreciate this work. Those who read the book with less appreciative eyes may overlook the biting humor in the novel. Omitting this aspect is allowing one's self to miss a highlight of the book. It is a novel that has greatness hidden in many places.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-02
Summary: "A Tale of Many Threads"
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is perhaps best known for its famous opening and closing sentences. It is a simple yet complicated story of life during the French Revolution with settings in both London and Paris. It tells the tale of Charles Darnay, the rightful French heir, who renounces his inheritance at a great price, and the consequences that his renunciation has upon the people that he loves.
The story begins with descriptions of the hardships endured during the time period by both the English and the French before one of the main characters, a banker by the name of Jarvis Lorry, enters the scene. It is his task to escort young Lucie Manette to Paris in the hopes that they can find her father, Doctor Manette, who was imprisoned in the Bastille when Lucie believed him to be dead. Upon returning to England, the doctor is restored to new life just as Charles Darnay is in fear of losing his as he stands trial for treason. The charges against him are dropped and he eventually marries Lucie and they have a happy life; yet while the reader and Doctor Manette know his true identity, no one else knows that he is the French heir. When a troubled letter recalls him to Paris, Darnay finds himself imprisoned once again with little hope of ever being released and doomed to meet his fate at the hands of the terrible Guillotine.
"A Tale of Two Cities" sports a wide cast of characters that at first can be difficult to follow. Yet all of the characters are interweaved together in the end. The separate lives of the Darnays in England soon fatefully mix with the revolutionary crazed lives of the Defarges in France. Indeed, Dickens created one cruel and repugnant villain in Madame Defarge, as well as an unlikely hero in Sydney Carton, a man willing to pay the ultimate price for those he loves.
Dickens has a lot of territory to cover in terms of the revolution, and while some lengthy descriptions can be tedious, the storming of the Bastille is graphically captured. At times the serialization of the novel is too evident, but that does not detract from the greater story at hand once all threads begin to mix together. There is also a fair amount of wit and humor thrown in to the story to keep readers interested, although the ending may leave readers wondering if the prophetic offered visions will come true.