A Tale of Two Cities: An Enduring Historical Fiction Epic Set During the French Revolution (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

 
9780008195489: A Tale of Two Cities: An Enduring Historical Fiction Epic Set During the French Revolution (Collins Classics)

Synopsis

An Enduring Historical Fiction Epic Set During the French Revolution

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About the Author

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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Set in Paris and London against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Lucie Manette and her father Alexandre, held captive in Paris’s notorious Bastille prison for eighteen years. When Alexandre is finally released, the Manettes find themselves caught up in the lives of a French aristocrat and an English lawyer who compete for the love of Lucie. The ensuing tale of violence and revenge depicts the plight of the peasantry, the brutality of the early revolutionaries, and the menacing shadow of the guillotine.

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