A Tale of Two Cities
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First published in serial form in 1859, Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities unfolds between London and Paris in the turbulent years surrounding the French Revolution. When Dr Manette is released after eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille, he is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, whose life becomes entwined with that of Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a brilliant but disillusioned English lawyer. As revolutionary fervour sweeps through France, private loyalties and inherited privilege are tested against the demands of a society in upheaval.
Among Dickens’s most powerful historical novels, A Tale of Two Cities moves between intimate domestic tenderness and the terrifying momentum of collective violence. Its exploration of injustice, vengeance, sacrifice and redemption is sharpened by Dickens’s vivid contrasts between the two cities, where the promise of liberty can become an appetite for retribution. Both an absorbing story of personal transformation and a searching portrait of revolution, the novel remains one of the defining works of Victorian literature.
From the book
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
On A Tale of Two Cities
“Dickens’s tale of love and revolution is among his finest, both intimate and epic in scale.”
— Anita Sethi, The Guardian