1789-1799, revolution

Young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in a novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.

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.

Chronicles the life and military career of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

As Jake Wilde's father, David and Maskelyne work furiously to finalize the preparations for rescuing Venn's wife from the dead a great storm rolls in leaving the Abby drown and the Obsidian Mirror, and key to their work, missing. And as Halloween draws near, a murderous hunt ensues.

A member of the French aristocracy, Charles Darnay, and an English lawyer, Sydney Carton, fall in love with the same woman, Lucy Manette, who marries Darnay, but Carton sacrifices himself when Lucy's happiness is threatened by the inevitable execution of Darnay during the French Revolution.

Tells of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Presents the classic tale of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution, and the story of the orphan Pip and his rise in Victorian society when a mysterious benefactor allows him to be educated as a gentleman.

In 1793, Eug?nie de Boncoeur arrives at the home of her English uncle and cousin, but the French Revolution has pursued her in the form of Guy Deschamps, who is determined to bring her back to Paris to marry the Pale Assassin.

Informative sidebars and primary sources are presented alongside the engaging main text to help illustrate the danger of allowing social and economic disparity to remain unaddressed by governing bodies.

Explores the economic, political, and social environment leading up to the French Revolution, and focuses on Napoleon’s leadership in France.