A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Contributor:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950, writer of essay.

Hughes, Holly, writer of essay.

Greinke, Geri, cover illustrator.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Running Press classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Fiction.

France.

Genre:

novels.

Novels

Fiction

History

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press)

Physical Description:

272, [4] pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1986.

Contents:

Preface to the First Edition

A Tale of Two Cities. Book the First-Recalled to Life. 1. The Period; 2. The Mail; 3. The Night Shadows; 4. The Preparation; 5. The Wine-Shop; 6. The Shoemaker

Book The Second-The Golden Thread. 1. Five Years Later; 2. A Sight; 3. A Disappointment; 4. Congratulatory; 5. The Jackal; 6. Hundreds of People; 7. Monseigneur in Town; 8. Monseigneur in the Country; 9. The Gorgon's Head; 10. Two Promises; 11. A Companion Picture; 12. The Fellow of Delicacy; 13. The Fellow of No Delicacy; 14. The Honest Tradesman; 15. Knitting; 16. Still Knitting; 17. One Night; 18. Nine Days; 19. An Opinion; 20. A Plea; 21. Echoing Footsteps; 22. The Sea Still Rises; 23. Fire Rises; 24. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

Book The Third-The Track of a Storm. 1. In Secret; 2. The Grindstone; 3. The Shadow; 4. Calm in Storm; 5. The Wood-Sawyer; 6. Triumph; 7. A Knock at the Door; 8. A Hand at Cards; 10. The Substance of the Shadow; 11. Dusk; 12. Darkness; 13. Fifty-two; 14. The Knitting Done; 15. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

Essays / By George Orwell; By Holly Hughes.

Notes:

"The text of this volume is reprinted from a first edition of 'A Tale of Two Cities' issued in book form, published by Chapman and Hall, London, in 1859, and made available through the courtesy of the Bryn Mawr College Library."--Page [4].

"The essay Charles Dickens by George Orwell is excerpted from Charles Dickens in 'Dickens, Dali & Others,' copyright © 1946 by George Orwell; renewed 1974 by Sonia Orwell. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc."--Page [4].

"Cover illustration by Geri Greinke. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: English Times and Plantin by rci, Philadelphia Augustea Open by Letraset."--Page [4].

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy is "1" printing.

ISBN:

0894714783

9780894714788

OCLC:

15257905