Résumé
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.
À propos de l'auteur
Dickens, Charles
Charles Dickens was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. He received little formal education, but taught himself shorthand and became a reporter of parliamentary debates for theMorning Chronicle. He began to publish sketches in various periodicals, which were subsequently republished as Sketches by Boz.The Pickwick Papers were published in 18367 and after a slow start became a publishing phenomenon and Dickens's characters the centre of a popular cult. He beganOliver Twist in 1837, followed byNicholas Nickleby (1838) andThe Old Curiosity Shop (184041).After finishingBarnaby Rudge (1841) Dickens set off for America; he went full of enthusiasm for the young republic but, in spite of a triumphant reception, he returned disillusioned. His experiences are recorded inAmerican Notes (1842).Martin Chuzzlewit (18434) did not repeat its predecessors' success but this was quickly redressed by the huge popularity of the Christmas Books, of which the first,A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843. During 18446 Dickens travelled abroad and he beganDombey and Son while in Switzerland. This andDavid Copperfield (184950) were more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early novels. In later works, such asBleak House (1853) andLittle Dorrit (1857), Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870.
Fiche technique
- Titre : A Tale of Two Cities
- Auteur : Dickens, Charles
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 368
- Genre : Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
- Date de publication : 25-01-2007
- Édition : Penguin Classics
- Poids : 0.205 kg
- Dimensions : 11.099977800000001 x 1.3999972 x 18.0999638 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0140620788
- ISBN-13 : 9780140620788
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