- Supported Devices
- HoloLens
- Updated
- May 17,2019
- Size
- 1.13 MB
- Age
- Everyone
- Release Date
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- Description
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This is an ebook.
The 45-chapter historical novel based on the French Revolution was first published in 1859. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to life in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met; Lucie's marriage and the collision between her beloved husband and the people who caused her father's imprisonment.
This novelis based on the sources such as The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Castle Spector by Matthew Lewis, Travels in France by Arthur Young and Tableau de Paris by Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Moreover, Dickens also used material from an account of imprisonment during the Terror by Beaumarchais, and records of the trial of a French spy published in The Annual Register.
A Tale of Two Cities has been cited as one of the best-selling novels of all time. It has been stated to have sold 200 million copies since its first publication.
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