During the Reign of Terror in France, Doctor Alexandre Manette finds himself free after eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille. Reunited with his daughter, Lucie Manette, in England, he becomes acquainted with an exiled French aristocrat, Charles Darnay, and an English lawyer of ill repute, Sydney Carton, both of whom are in love with Lucie. Find out how this unsuspecting love triangle gets drawn into the horrors of the revolution, and how they fight their way out of it!
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A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to life in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met; Lucie's marriage and the collision between her beloved husband and the people who caused her father's imprisonment; and Monsieur and Madame Defarge, sellers of wine in a poor suburb of Paris. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
This book is great for schools, teachers and students or for the casual reader, and makes a wonderful addition to any classic literary library.
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