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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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 Summary                                                                                               This is a novel of the great written Charles Dickens, that talks about the experiences developed in the life of our protagonist Philip Pirrip, an orphan child, raised under the tutelage of his sister Joe Gargery. A woman with a dominant behavior, married to the blacksmith Joe, an excellent man, who becomes in an unconditional support for Pip. In the opening chapters of the novel, Pip is in the cemetery of the plac...

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us". A Tale of Two Cities is a novel written by Charles Dickens, and as the name of the book indicates the story is in the context of two cities, in particular London and Paris (1775). The first part of the book talks about Jarvis Lorry a British lawyer of the Tellson Bank, search to Lucie Manette for tell her that her father the doctor Manette is live. And that they have to go for him to France. One time they find doctor Manette in the tavern of Ernest Defarge, they discover doctor Manette has mental problems, and he cannot remember nothing. However, after talking a little with his daughter he begins to remember who he is and they return to England. On second part of the book we find that Lucie Manette has a lot of suitors, some of them Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton and Stryver. Darnay and Lucie get married and had a girl. Is nece...