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Books with title Crime of Two Cities

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens, Marion Leighton, Malvina G. Vogel, Brendan Lynch

    Hardcover (Baronet Books (Waldman/Playmore), March 15, 1992)
    A reign of terror! The mobs in the street run wild, and danger is everywhere. Lucy Manette, half-English, half-French, lives quietly with her family in London. Having rescued her father many years earlier she feels safe. but the long, bloody hand of the mob reaches out for her and her family, thrusting them into ever-increasing danger. Love, loyalty, friendship and even life itself are threatened in Charles Dickens' unforgettable, most dramatic book.
  • Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Hardcover (BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS, March 15, 2001)
    Published in 1859, "A Tale of Two Cities" is Charles Dickens's most widely read novel. Set in the late eighteenth century with the backdrop of both England and France in turmoil over impending revolution, it is filled with beautiful imagery and unforgettable characters which brings readers back to it again and again.
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens, Simon Vance

    Audio CD (Tantor Audio, April 14, 2008)
    This novel provides a highly charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice, private experience and public history, during the French Revolution.A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years without trial by the aristocratic authorities. Finally released, he is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, who despite her French ancestry has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay, another expatriate, who has abandoned wealth and a title in France because of his political convictions. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant, but there he is arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations. His wife, Lucie, their young daughter, and her aged father follow him across the channel, thus putting all their lives in danger.
  • TALE OF TWO CITIES

    FEARON

    Paperback (FEARON, Jan. 1, 1950)
    During the French Revolution a young Englishman gives up his life to save the husband of the woman he loves
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Mary Sebag-montefiore, Barry Ablett

    Hardcover (Usborne Pub Ltd, June 1, 2009)
    During the French Revolution, a young Englishman gives up his life in order to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Paperback (SDE Classics, Oct. 3, 2019)
    Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!The backdrop of Western Europe right before the beginning of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror is perfectly summed up in the famous first lines “It was the best of times…”A Tale of Two Cities follows Dr. Alexandre Manette in 1775 as he has just been released from an eighteen year prison sentence. His daughter, Lucie, who is incredulous at the news her father is still alive, travels to Paris and finds her father making shoes while staying with a former servant. Together they return to England only to be summoned once again for the trial of a Frenchman who is accused of treason.
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Paperback (Independently published, June 26, 2020)
    A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical 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 live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television, radio, and the stage, and has continued to have an influence on popular culture.
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens, Robert D. Shepherd

    Hardcover (Emc Pub, June 16, 1998)
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!' Set before and during the French Revolution in the cities of Paris and London, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Dr Manette's release from imprisonment in the Bastille and his reunion with daughter, Lucie. A French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Lucie and the ensuing tale plays out against the menacing backdrop of the French Revolution and the shadow of the guillotine.
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    eBook
    A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 23, 2016)
    A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody, a book that will keep saying what it has to say for years.
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  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Unknown Binding (Signet Books, March 15, 1998)
    Excellent Book
  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens, Frank Muller

    2005 (Recorded Books, Inc., Jan. 21, 2005)
    Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and for Carton's last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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