Tale of Two Cities

About this book

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickenss great historical novel set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the authors novels A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themesimprisonment injustice social anarchy resurrection and the renunciation that fosters renewal.