After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer
A Tale of Two Cities (Wordsworth Classics)
โ Scribed by Dickens, Charles
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 256 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1848703945
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โฆ Synopsis
General Introduction; Introduction; Introduction Notes; Bibliography; Book the First; Recalled to Life; Chapter I; The Period; Chapter II; The Mail; Chapter III; The Night Shadows; Chapter IV; The Preparation; Chapter V; The Wine Shop; Chapter VI; The Shoemaker; Book the Second; The Golden Thread; Chapter I; Five Years Later; Chapter II; A Sight; Chapter III; A Disappointment; Chapter IV; Congratulatory; Chapter V; The Jackal; Chapter VI; Hundreds of People; Chapter VII; Monseigneur in Town; Chapter VIII; Monseigneur in the Country; Chapter IX; The Gorgon's Head 53; Chapter X; Two Promises.;Traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. The author based his historical detail on Carlyle's ""The French Revolution"", and his own observations and investigations during his numerous visits to Paris.
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