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Author
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging 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...
2) Revolution
Author
Language
English
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Cat accepts the challenge to become a spy while living a public life as a ballerina, she leaves the Theater Royal behind and finds herself in the heart of revolutionary Paris, where she must work to save her captive friends.
4) Divah
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Straddling the lush trappings of the Carlyle Hotel in New York City and Paris during the Reign of Terror in 1789, seventeen-year-old Itzy Nash is called upon to save herself--and all of humanity--from the ravages of the Underworld, in this epic battle between angels and demons with a doomed love story at its core.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A satisfying love story set at the time of the French Revolution A daredevil rescue. An unexpected reunion Imprisoned during the French Revolution, English spy Lord Laurence Beaumont is finally rescued-by the courageous, beautiful Delphine St. Clair. Back home in Cornwall, Laurence has no interest in the convenient marriage offered by a local landowner-until he discovers the bride is Delphine!
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.