A Tale of Two Cities
Edition: Collins Classics paperback edition (3)
Publisher: Collins Classics
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780008195489
Subjects: English literature
Description: Set in Paris and London against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Lucie Manette and her father Alexandre, held captive in Paris’s notorious Bastille prison for eighteen years. When Alexandre is finally released, the Manettes find themselves caught up in the lives of a French aristocrat and an English lawyer who compete for the love of Lucie. The ensuing tale of violence and revenge depicts the plight of the peasantry, the brutality of the early revolutionaries, and the menacing shadow of the guillotine.

Serialised in Dickens’s own literary periodical in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of the best-known works of literature set during the French Revolution.