Great Expectations and a Tale of Two Cities

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[Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721465W/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities) After 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 the 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 the guillotine. GREAT EXPECTATIONS A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor- these form a series of events that changes the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his "great expectations."

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Other Editions

• Great Expectations and a Tale of Two Cities: By Charles Dickens - IllustratedIndependently Published2017-01-01
• Charles DickensHardcoverPorchlight Publishing1989-03-01
• Great Expectations + A Tale of Two Cities (The Novels of Charles Dickens -, 2 Novels in 1 Volume)Leather boundTally Hall Press1996-01-01
• Charles Dickens LibraryAudio CassetteDH Audio1998-09-01
• A Tale of Two Cities and Great ExpectationsPaperbackPenguin Books2010-01-01
• Tale of Two Cities and Great ExpectationsPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group2010-01-01