A tale of two cities

Charles Dickens

Publié par VIKING ADULT, le 23 mai 2011

544 pages

Résumé

Dickens's historical novel of the French Revolution, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There 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 lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.