Name: Un Conte de Deux Villes (in French)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781657138629

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Independently Published

Year

2020

Language

French

Pages

362

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.1 cm

Weight

0.53 kg.

ISBN13

9781657138629

Synopsis "Un Conte de Deux Villes (in French)"

Après dix-huit ans comme prisonnier politique à la Bastille, le docteur Manette vieillissant est enfin libéré et retrouve sa fille en Angleterre. Là, la vie de deux hommes très différents, Charles Darnay, un aristocrate français exilé, et Sydney Carton, une avocate anglaise de mauvaise réputation mais brillante, se retrouvent mêlées par leur amour pour Lucie Manette. Des routes tranquilles de Londres, ils sont attirés contre leur gré dans les rues vengeresses et ensanglantées de Paris au plus fort du règne de la terreur, et ils tombent bientôt sous l'ombre meurtrière de La Guillotine.A Tale of Two Cities french editionAfter eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of 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 roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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