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Author
Lexile measure
1130L
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
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
HL 560L
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
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
813 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution are the setting of this suspense-filled classic focusing on the physical resemblance of Sidney Carton and Charles Darney & their love for Lucy Manette.