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. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all
drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the
height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La
Guillotine.

Review
It is really one of his best. There are passages so spattered with violence
and blood that you look out for the red blotches on the page in front of
youbrilliantly plotted (A.N. Wilson Daily Telegraph )

Dickenss story of love, espionage and Anglo-French relations (Scotsman )

When I was very much younger I used to think that A Tale of Two Cities by
Charles Dickens was the most wonderful book in all the world. I was
particularly moved by Sydney Carton dying in the place of Charles Evremonde and
thought this was a wonderful act but, in fact, of course in later years if you
read it, it becomes an incredibly selfish act (Anne Widdecombe Independent )

Dickens writes about Parisian and London society with such grittiness and
truth, you become immersed (Anne Charleston (Madge From Neighbours!!) )

Dickenss magnificent account of the revolution and one of his best (and
shortest) novels (Observer ) This text refers to an alternate Paperback
edition.

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