A Tale of Two Cities (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

A Tale of Two Cities (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) PDF

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Royal Classics

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781774378595

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A Tale of Two Cities is 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 biggest selling novel in history. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Hard Times (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Hard Times (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) PDF

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Royal Classics

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781774762417

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Hard Times is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby. The eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, teaches nothing but facts, eradicating any imaginative or aesthetic subjects from the curriculum, while analysis, deduction and mathematics are emphasised. Mr. Bounderby himself superintends through calculating tabular statements and statistics, and is always secretly rebuking the people of Coketown for indulging in conceitful activities. Human joy is seen as the open-hearted and affectionate people act as an antidote to the ruthless behaviour Dickens presents. Hard Times appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. Dickens wished to confront the assumption that prosperity runs parallel to morality, a notion which is systematically deconstructed in this novel through his portrayal of the moral monsters, Mr. Bounderby and James Harthouse. Dickens was also campaigning for the importance of imagination in life, and for people's lives to not be reduced to a collection of material facts and statistical analyses. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

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