Here, too, are all of Dickens's recurring themes - imprisonment, injustice, and cataclysmic violence, resurrection and the renunciation that makes renewal possible. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were not in itself sufficient for a dozen novels, Dickens added to it a professional resurrectionist, an authentic ogress, and an antihero as convincingly flawed as any in modern literature. When I was acting, Charles Dickens writes in his preface to the first edition of A Tale of Two Cities, with my children and friends, in Mr. The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history.
Poor, was a predecessor to the business that eventually became Standard & Poor’s. The firm that he and his father established in 1868, H. 8vo (222 x 145mm.) FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 7/8 MONTHLY PARTS, mixed issue, with the first issue mispagination of p. From the library of stockbroker Henry William Poor, with his bookplates. London: Chapman and Hall, June-December 1859. Octavo, bound in full red 19th century morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. The first half of the novel, set mostly in London, therefore, covers a large block of time, it is somewhat disjointed and jumps ahead several years at a time. First edition, second issue of one of Dickens’ most enduring work. First edition, second issue of one of Dickens most enduring work.
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