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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of...
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2003.
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English
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Lord John Grey, a nobleman and high-ranking officer in His Majesty's army in 1757, faces a dilemma when he must decide how to let his cousin know that her fiancee has the pox without revealing how he came by the information, while at the same time he is tapped to investigate the murder of a comrade who may have been a spy.
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Picador/Henry Holt and Company
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2015.
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English
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"The setting: London, 1794. The problem: Four nouveau riche fathers with five marriageable daughters. The plan: The young women will learn to play the piano, give a concert for young Englishmen who have titles but no fortunes, and will marry very well indeed. The complications: The lascivious (and French) piano teacher; the piano maker's jealous (and musically gifted) daughter; the one of these marriageable daughters with a mating plan of her own....
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