num_pages: 512
description: A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes--imprisonment, injustice, and social anarchy, resurrection and the renunciation that fosters renewal. "Dickens's French Revolution is probably more like the French Revolution than Carlyle's," said G. K. Chesterton. "In dignity and eloquence A Tale of Two Cities almost stands alone among the books by Dickens."(front flap)
language: English
title: A Tale of Two Cities
titlecomplete: A Tale of Two Cities
characters: Madame Therese Defarge, Dr. Alexandre Manette, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, Classics, School, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 925204
places: London, England, France, England, Paris
publisher: The Modern Library