A complex and profound book, The Tale of Two Cities explores the consequences of tyranny, fate and self-sacrifice. With much of the narrative played out in Paris, during the French Revolution Dickens examines the interplay between personal action, and the flow of history. Dr Manette, having travelled to Paris finds himself imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 brutal years, unable to see his kind and loving daughter Lucy. On his eventual return to London...

The grim tale of the people who were caught up in the wave of violence and murder which marked the French Revolution.

"Esta novela es un clásico de la literatura inglesa del siglo XIX. Trata paralelamente las realidades de Inglaterra y de una Francia revolucionaria. Tomando como punto de referencia la revolución francesa, Dickens muestra los problemas sociales y políticos de Inglaterra, temiendo que la historia se repitiera en su país natal cuando el escribía esta novela. En el contraste de estas dos ciudades presentadas, Inglaterra se presenta como la confianza,...

The inhabitants of the two cities, Paris and London, --including a doctor, his devoted daughter, the young French aristocrat she loves, and their English friend--are swept into the tide of the French Revolution.

October, 1812. Britain and France are still at war when Bow Street Runner and former private investigator Matthew Hawkwood now of the British Secret Service joins a colleague in Paris on a special mission to successfully negotiate a peace treaty between France and the allies. Failure would mean prison, torture and a meeting with the guillotine.