Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
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The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous...
Castlevania: Nocturne
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During the French Revolution, vampire hunter prodigy Richter Belmont fights to uphold his family's...
A Tale of Two Cities
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before...
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Sofie and Lara Thibault, along with their mother, move from Marseille to work in a wallpaper factory near Paris after he violent death of their father. The Oberst factory provides them all with a job and Josef Oberst becomes friends with the sisters.
A marriage and the Revolution see an end to the friendship.
I loved all the historical details around the Revolution, what it was like to work in a wallpaper factory, and the differences between the workers and the aristocracy. I could feel the tension radiating off the page, building to its incendiary, and very sad conclusion. I thought the character- and world-building were excellent, and I even felt some sympathy for the awful, aristo wife of Josef.
It’s a fabulous addition to stories set during the French Revolution.
La Révolution
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In a reimagined history of the French Revolution, the guillotine's future inventor uncovers a...
A Tale of Two Cities
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A Place of Greater Safety
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From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this...
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Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
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