A Tale of Two Cities

By Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens must be one of the finest writers ever to have lived and ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is my absolute favourite of all of his books.
~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla
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Publish Date: 1859

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens’s gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

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