A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles
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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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Produktbeschreibung
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!
Autorenporträt
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, on the southern coast of England. His first novel was The Pickwick Papers published in 1836. In February 1837, he began writing his second novel Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, under the pseudonym " Boz", in the form of monthly instalments in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany. Charles Dickens always saw himself as a rather serious writer. He felt that his mission in life was to speak for the poor and downtrodden. Throughout his life, Dickens published 14 major novels, many plays, a large number of short stories, and several other books and articles. Some of his famous novels include David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.