A Tale of Two Cities
Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781847496607
Subjects: English literature
Description: Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes. Yet. soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the pæeM English capital to the horror and bloodshed of the Paris Terror aM the lwning threat of the guillotine.

Representing a departure from the social satire of most of his other novels and deemed by Dickens himself to be "the best story I have written". A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful historical novel about the repercussions of epochal events on the personal lives of people on both sides of the Channel.