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A Tale Of Two Cities And Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Two Novels / Oprah Book Club 2011
Simon & Schuster
February 2011
On Sale: February 9, 2011
962 pages
ISBN: 1936041995
EAN: 9781936041992
Paperback (reprint)
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Two of the most beloved novels in all of English
literature-together in one extraordinary volume.
A 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."
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