A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens (Macmillan Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

 
9781509825387: A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens (Macmillan Collector's Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 150982538X ISBN 13: 9781509825387
Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

A Tale of Two Cities, a story of revolution, revenge and 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 and 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 and 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.

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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.

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One of Dickens's most exciting books, set against the backdrop of the French revolution

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Verlag
Macmillan Collector's Library
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
150982538X
ISBN 13 
9781509825387
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
520
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