A tale of two cities / (Record no. 13014)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780486406510
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency NULRC
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number FIC .D53 1999
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dickens, Charles.
Relator term author
245 #2 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A tale of two cities /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Charles Dickens
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First Edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Mineola, New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Dover Publication, Inc.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1999
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vi, 293 pages ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount USD4.74
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Recalled to life -- The golden thread -- The truck of a storm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 entry element LONDON (ENGLAND) -- HISTORY -- 18TH CENTURY -- FICTION
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Books - Fiction
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    Library of Congress Classification     Fiction LRC - Annex National University - Manila Fiction 05/27/2016 Purchased - Amazon 4.74   FIC .D53 1999 NULIB000010773 05/20/2025 c.1 05/20/2025 Books - Fiction