Título: A Tale Of Two Cities
Autor: Charles Dickens
Sinopse: A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. A Tale of Two Cities was published in weekly installments from April 1859 to November 1859 in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. All but three of Dickens's previous novels had appeared only as monthly installments. With sales of about 200 million copies, A Tale of Two Cities is the bestselling novel in history. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “A Tale Of Two Cities”, de Charles Dickens, publicado pela editora Wisehouse Classics, em 2016 e com 273 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Wisehouse Classics
Páginas: 273
Ano: 2016
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Linguagem: pt_BR
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Wisehouse Classics oferecem uma experiência de leitura que atravessa séculos, reunindo obras que vão do ensaio feminista ao épico grego, passando por clássicos da literatura inglesa e americana. O catálogo privilegia textos que dialogam com temas universais — como identidade, sociedade, moral e transformação — apresentados em narrativas que podem ser densas e reflexivas ou mais ágeis e envolventes. A linguagem varia do formal ao literário, com obras que exploram desde a fantasia nonsense até o suspense psicológico. O leitor encontra tanto textos que convidam à contemplação quanto histórias marcadas por tensão e conflito, muitas vezes ambientadas em contextos históricos ou imaginários.
