Rafaello Busoni
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of 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...
Author
Series
Bantam book volume S1734
Language
English
Description
A psychological study of a young man on the make in early 19th century France. Born poor and obscure, Julien Sorel finds his road to power in the church, but, though ordained as a priest, his religion is one of self-interest and his god, success.