Publisher's Synopsis
 
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.
 
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; 1923. Reprint. The World's Classics- XXXVIII. With an introduction by Mrs. F.S. Boas. Hardcover, no dust cover. xxix, 466 pp. Full brown leather with blind stamped decoration. Gilt lettering to spine. Gilt edged top which has dulled. No ribbon marker.  Top and bottom of spine rubbed, corners rubbed and bumped. Sixteen illustrations. The World's Classics- list of series to rear.  Preowned. No ISBN.