Description

This vintage edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was published as part of the “Classics to Grow On” series by Parents’ Magazine Press (under Parents’ Institute) in 1966. It was curated for children and young adults as a durable hardcover designed to encourage a lifelong love of literature

The “Classics to Grow On” series is highly sought after by vintage book collectors today due to its distinct uniform spine styling, mid-century cover artwork, and aesthetic appeal on home library shelves. This has orange spine with an iconic colorful diamond pattern featuring small story-themed illustrations on the front cover.

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes: imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.