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037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
Terms of availability |
Purchase |
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
Additional format characteristics |
Nil |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
F |
Item number |
DIC/TA |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Dickens, Charles |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
TALE OF TWO CITIES |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1984/09/27 |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
MacMillan |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Size of unit |
336 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
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." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Fiction |
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Lending |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
Price amount |
12 |
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