"The Lake English Classics" 1906; Scott, Foresman and Company publishers, Chicago, New York; smaller hardcover with grey boards and black lettering on cover and spine - faded a bid on spine; pages are unmarked; previous owner's name lightly written inside cover; good condition with some bumping of cover edges; see pics.
 
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met; Lucie's marriage and the collision between her beloved husband and the people who caused her father's imprisonment; and Monsieur and Madame Defarge, sellers of wine in a poor suburb of Paris. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.