In this unique ebook edition of A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, you will find the original illustrations from the first publication of these stories by artists Hablot "Phiz" Knight Browne and Charles Green. As with all Codex Ebooks, this ebook file has been meticulously proofed for formatting errors and includes a working Table of Contents. It is also DRM-free, which means you can also read it on your Sony Reader, Kobo Reader or any ebook reading device that can display ePub files. This ebook has been tested on a Nook (and a Sony Reader Touch Edition) to ensure maximum readability.
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A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, and it ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated British barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.
Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip, writing about his life (and attempting to become a gentleman along the way). The novel, like much of Dickens's work, draws on his experiences of life and people.
The main plot of Great Expectations takes place between Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old (and which happens to be the year of Dickens' birth), and the winter of 1840.
