We are a nation that loves its ancient woods & trees We prize our sturdy oaks craggy pines bluebells & primroses badgers & dormice We value the history & heritage of places that have been woodland since before the Norman Conquest But only a generation ago we were all set to wipe them out It was said that in the space of just 30 years nearly half of our ancient woods were destroyed How & why did this happen? & who prevented them all being lost? A Tale of Trees features the voices of those who cut down the woods & those who saved what was left It is a story full of tragedy & heroism ingenuity & blindness & it will inspire the reader to go out & explore more ancient woods & delight in our natural treasures ...

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment & begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie There the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton & the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes Yet soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the peaceful English capital to the horror & bloodshed of the Paris Terror & the looming threat of the guillotine Representing a departure from the social satire of most of his other novels & deemed by Dickens himself to be "the best story I have written" A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful historical novel about the repercussions of epochal events on the personal lives of people on both sides of the Channel ...

This brilliantly coloured tale of the French Revolution is an historical romance set in Paris & London Famous for the character of Sidney Carton who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine& it is a far far better thing I do than I have ever done &- the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology & the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution illuminated by Dickens& lively comedy ...

A Tale of Two Cities a story of revolution revenge & sacrifice is one of Charles Dickens& most exciting novels Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past Dr Manette wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years is finally released & reunited with his daughter Lucie who despite her French ancestry has been brought up in London Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay who has abandoned both wealth & title in France because of his political convictions When revolution breaks out in Paris Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant but is soon arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations Lucie aided by young lawyer Sydney Carton follows him across the Channel thus putting all their lives in danger With an afterword by Sam Gilpin Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure ...

Part of Penguin&s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released & reunited with his daughter in England There two very different men Charles Darnay an exiled French aristocrat & Sydney Carton a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette From the tranquil lanes of London they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror & soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine ...

It was the best of times it was the worst of times Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison the Bastille Finally reunited the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men the heroic aristocrat Darnay & the dissolute lawyer Carton Their story which encompasses violence revenge love & redemption is grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying brutality of the French Revolution Also in the Vintage Classics Dickens Series A Christmas Carol David Copperfield Great Expectations Hard Times Oliver Twist ...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Dickens& greatest historical novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution & the Terror Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle&s great work
- The French Revolution The best story I have written& was Dickens& own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities & the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author&s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering self-sacrifice & redemption
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Charles Dickens&s A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire split between Paris & London during the brutal & bloody events of the French Revolution This Penguin Classics edition of is edited with an introduction & notes by Richard Maxwell & It was the best of times it was the worst of times& After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released & reunited with his daughter in England There two very different men Charles Darnay an exiled French aristocrat & Sydney Carton a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette From the tranquil lanes of London they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror & soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine This edition uses the text as it appeared in its first serial publication in 1859 to convey the full scope of Dickens&s vision &

Includes:: the original illustrations by HK Browne (& Phiz&) Richard Maxwell&s introduction discusses the intricate interweaving of epic drama with personal tragedy Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 His most famous books including Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield & The Pickwick Papers have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions If you enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities you might like Dickens&s The Old Curiosity Shop also available in Penguin Classics

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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals & humans Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty from the brilliant colors of butterflies & fishes to the songs of birds & frogs He argued that animals have "a taste for the beautiful" that drives their potential mates to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive & reproductively successful But if Darwin explained why sexual beauty evolved in animals he struggled to understand how In A Taste for the Beautiful Michael Ryan one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior tells the remarkable story of how he & other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off & transformed our understanding of sexual selection shedding new light on human behavior in the process Drawing on cutting-edge work in neuroscience & evolutionary biology as well as his own important studies of the tiny Tungara frog deep in the jungles of Panama Ryan explores the key questions Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful & others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic & if so where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers to these questions lie in the brain--particularly of females who act as biological puppeteers spurring the development of beautiful traits in males This theory of how sexual beauty evolves explains its astonishing diversity & provides new insights about how much our own perception of beauty resembles that of other animals Vividly written & filled with fascinating stories A Taste for the Beautiful will change how you think about beauty & attraction ...