Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly [0]
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This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Jennifer Donnelly
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Donnelly, Jennifer.
Revolution / Jennifer Donnelly. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy—Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89760-3 — [1. Grief—Fiction. 2. Emotional problems—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction. 4. Musicians—Fiction. 5. Diaries—Fiction. 6. Paris (France)—Fiction. 7. France—Fiction. 8. France—History—Revolution, 1789–1799—Fiction. 9. Louis XVII, of France, 1785–1795—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D7194Re 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2010008993
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v3.1
For Daisy,
who kicked out the walls of my heart
Contents
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Part 1 - Hell
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Part 2 - Purgatory
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Part 3 - PARADISE
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Permissions
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
About the Author
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing it is to say,
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more….
—DANTE The Divine Comedy
HELL
And to a place I come where nothing shines.
—DANTE
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