A reprint of the 1947 text which examines the beginnings of the French Revolution, analyzing the composition and action of various social classes, and looking at how they combined, under the leadership of the aristocracy, to overthrow the Bourbon regime.
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
A biography of French revolutionist Maximilien Robespierre that describes his role in the revolution and sentencing of thousands of deaths by guillotine.
Describes the role Danton played in harnessing the energies of his countrymen to depose the king and enlist in wars against foreign and domestic enemies of the Republic.
Follows the attempts of an eighteenth-century nun and her modern-day counterpart, Cat Velis, as they try to trace the invaluable pieces of a very old chess service.
Presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Charles Dickens and "A Tale of Two Cities," with emphasis on thematic and structural analysis of the work, in which significant themes, patterns, and motifs are traced.
An adapatation of Charles Dickens's story in which a young Englishman determines to do his utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine in the early days of the French Revolution.
