Authors: Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Illustrator), Gillen D'Arcy Wood
ISBN-13: 9781593081386, ISBN-10: 1593081383
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: Special Value
Charles Dickens is probably the greatest novelist England ever produced. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life -- along with his memorable characters -- have made him beloved by readers the world over. In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikely) heroes.
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One of Dickens’s most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities is a stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.
Gillen D’Arcy Wood received his Ph.D in English from Columbia University in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860.