About the Book: Tale Of Two Cities
Charles Dickenss A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between
Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution.
This Penguin Classics edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by
Richard Maxwell. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... 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