num_pages: 560
description: Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history paralled one another as the political activities and personal responsibilities of these fictional characters, during the French Revolution, draw them into the Paris of the Terror.
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: Oxford University Press