00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Dickens, Charles aut Verfasser/-in new life english literature father HISTORICAL England bloodshed STORY NOVELS FRANCE exiled English literature Frankreich 18. century London Charles Dickens Imprisonment Exilant daughter CLASSIC Paris lawyer HISTORY Revolution A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Richmond - UK Alma Books LTD 2017 Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes. Yet soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the peaceful English capital to the horror and bloodshed of the Paris Terror and the looming threat of the guillotine. 9781847496607 9781847496607 1847496601 1847496601 eng 429 Seiten