A tale of two cities / / by Charles Dickens
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| Autore: |
Dickens Charles <1812-1870, >
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| Titolo: |
A tale of two cities / / by Charles Dickens
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Open Road Media, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (738 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | French - England - London |
| British - France - Paris | |
| Lookalikes | |
| Executions and executioners | |
| Soggetto geografico: | London (England) History 18th century Fiction |
| France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction | |
| Paris (France) History 1789-1799 Fiction | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Book the First--Recalled to Life; I. The Period; II. The Mail; III. The Night Shadows; IV. The Preparation; V. The Wine-shop; VI. The Shoemaker; Book the Second--the Golden Thread; I. Five Years Later; II. A Sight; III. A Disappointment; IV. Congratulatory; V. The Jackal; VI. Hundreds of People; VII. Monseigneur in Town; VIII. Monseigneur in the Country; IX. The Gorgon''s Head; X. Two Promises; XI. A Companion Picture; XII. The Fellow of Delicacy; XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy; XIV. The Honest Tradesman; XV. Knitting; XVI. Still Knitting; XVII. One Night; XVIII. Nine Days |
| XIX. An OpinionXX. A Plea; XXI. Echoing Footsteps; XXII. The Sea Still Rises; XXIII. Fire Rises; XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock; Book the Third--the Track of a Storm; I. In Secret; II. The Grindstone; III. The Shadow; IV. Calm in Storm; V. The Wood-Sawyer; VI. Triumph; VII. A Knock at the Door; VIII. A Hand at Cards; IX. The Game Made; X. The Substance of the Shadow; XI. Dusk; XII. Darkness; XIII. Fifty-two; XIV. The Knitting Done; XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever; Copyright | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The premier novel of the French Revolution, by England's greatest authorSet against the bloodthirsty backdrop of revolutionary France, this monumental saga-one of the most famous works in all of literature-is at its heart the story of a beautiful woman and the two men who compete for her love: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who renounces his heritage, yet stands accused of treason in the rush to the guillotine, and Sydney Carton, a disillusioned English barrister who finds his salvation in the ultimate act of sacrifice.Full of rich historical details and populated by a sprawling cast of c |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tale of two cities |
| ISBN: | 1-4804-4118-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460260403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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