num_pages: 4
description: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There 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.
language: English
title: A Tale of Two Cities
titlecomplete: A Tale of Two Cities
characters: Charles Darnay, Dr. Alexandre Manette, Lucie Manette, Madame Therese Defarge, Sydney Carton
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 925226
places: England, Paris, France, London, England
publisher: Penguin Audiobooks