A Tale of Two Cities
Cover mockup.
A Tale of Two Cities
A French doctor is freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, and his daughter and the men who love her are drawn into the Revolution.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 8–11
- First published
- 1859
- This edition
- Complete text, in three books.
- Pages
- 404
- Prompts
- 45, one at the close of each chapter
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Seven pairs of opposites open the book, and then a turn: the period’s “noisiest authorities” insisted on “the superlative degree of comparison only.” Whose voice speaks “the best of times,” then? Circle each word of praise Dickens gives the year and its great men later in the chapter, and decide how much of it he means.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages404
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts45, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 8–11