Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities

Beschreibung

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by Charles Dickens that depicts the horrors and the savagery of the French Revolution.The tale starts with the release of the French Doctor Mannette imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen long years and his reunion with his daughter, Lucie Mannette in England. Lucie, a simple and beautiful girl has two suitors there a self exiled French nobleman, Charles Darnay and a lazy and alcoholic attorney, Sydney Carton. A sudden upturn of events redefines their destiny and they all land amidst the bloodshed and violence of Paris during the horrendous period of the Reign of Terror. There they are forced to face the consequences of their past and their lives are overshadowed by the fatal blow of La Guillotine.One of the best known works of Charles Dickens, the novel throws light on the terrific events of the day and the famished population that rebels against the corrupt and degraded government.

Autor

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MAPLE PRESS PVT LTD
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9789352230723
• ISBN-10: 9352230728
• Artikelnr.: 64540986