A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 1859 · Romance, Historical, Drama & Literary

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In London and in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, the lives of a few people are bound together by love and by the long shadow of an old injustice: Lucie Manette, whose devotion recalls her broken father from eighteen years in the Bastille; Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who has renounced his cruel family; and Sydney Carton, a brilliant, wasted lawyer who loves Lucie without hope. When the Terror engulfs Paris and Darnay is condemned to the guillotine, Carton makes a sacrifice that has moved readers for generations. Dickens's most thrilling historical novel, complete and richly illustrated.