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...

2) The Count of Monte Cristo

Author

Dumas, Alexandre

Series

Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
First Avenue Classics
Universal library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34

Lexile measure

810L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...

3) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35

Lexile measure

1150L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway

Description

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"Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...

4) Dracula

Author

Stoker, Bram

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

GN 430L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway

Description

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"A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But...