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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of the guillotine.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor- these form a series of events that changes the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his "great expectations."
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Young men, fiction, ex-convicts, history, revolution, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Oprha's Book Club, LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES, FICTION CLASSICS, CLASSICS, CONTEMPORARY FICTION, Historical fiction, Classic Literature, Drama, Executions and executioners, Revenge, Juvenile fiction, Loyalty, Fathers and daughters, Lookalikes, Political refugees, British, Friendship, Revolution (France : 1789-1799), war storiesPeople
Jerry Cruncher, Lucie Manette, Ernest Defarge, Therese Defarge, Alexandre Manette, Mrs. Cruncher, Charles Darnay, John Barsad, Roger Cly, Mr. Stryver, Sydney Carton, Miss Pross, Monseigneur, Marquis St. Evrémonde, Gaspard, The Mender of Roads, The Vengeance, Théophile Gabelle, The SeamstressPlaces
Paris, France, London, England, Great Britain, London (England), Paris (France), Bastille PrisonTimes
1789-1799, 19th century, 18th century, Revolution, 1793Showing 3 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Tale of Two Cities
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of the guillotine.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor- these form a series of events that changes the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his "great expectations."
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