A tale of two cities, and, Great expectations
Title:
A tale of two cities, and, Great expectations
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
TALE OF TWO CITIES: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of the guillotine. GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor- these form a series of events that changes the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his "great expectations."
Other Title:
Tale of two cities, and, Great expectations : two novels
Great expectations, and, A tale of two cities
Year Published:
2010
2010,
1859
Physical Description:
834 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:
"Oprah's book club"--Cover.
Previously published separately. TALE OF TWO CITIES: first published in Great Britain by Chapman and Hall 1859. GREAT EXPECTATIONS: first published in Great Britain by Chapman and Hall 1861.
On back cover, Great expectations is listed first.
Contents:
Tale of two cities -- Great expectations.
ISBN:
9780142196588
Publisher:
New York : Penguin Books, 2010.
