A tale of two cities

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens?s most exciting books?a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events…

A tale of two cities

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 agai…

A tale of two cities

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 agai…

Dork diaries: i love paris!

In Dork Diaries: I Love Paris!, Nikki Maxwell's adventures continue as she heads to Paris for a super exciting trip—part vacation, part drama! Nikki is invited to be part of a reality TV show filming in the City of Light, and she’s over the moon. But as usual, things don't go as smoothly as she’d hoped. Between dealing with her crush Brandon, mean girl Mackenzie, and being in a foreign co…

The three musketeers

Overview: A young Gascon gentleman, D' Artagnan, arrives in Paris determined to join the infamous King's guards and is soon befriended by the band of musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis famed for their impressive swordplay and fearless spirit. With the treacherous Cardinal Richelieu and his seductive spy, Milady, weaving a web of deceit and royal intrigue, the friends are soon drawn into an e…

Les miserables

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ISBN/ISSN

9780812974263

Collation

1328 p. ; 21 cm.

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SS F HUG l

The man in the iron mask

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ISBN/ISSN

9781840224351

Collation

xxiii, 632 p. ; 20 cm.

Series Title

Wordsworth classics

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SS F DUM m

Tender is the night

The carefree swirl of the Jazz Age ... and the tragic romance of Dick and Nicole Diver. Fitzgerald's 'favorite novel' is the story of their passionate love affair and their life as the perfect Jazz Age couple. He's an idealistic American psychiatrist, full of charm and a promising career. She's an extraordinarily beautiful and wealthy mental patient being treated at a Swiss sanitarium. They fal…

The hunchback of notre dame

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo

The tenth man

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ISBN/ISSN

9780671019090

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SS F GRE t