A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

British -- France -- Paris -- Fiction · Executions and executioners -- Fiction · France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction · French -- England -- London -- Fiction

"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is a historical novel published in 1859. Set in London and Paris during the tumultuous French Revolution, it follows Dr. Alexandre Manette after his mysterious 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille and his reunion with his daughter Lucie. Their lives become entangled with a French aristocrat fleeing his heritage and a dissolute English lawyer who harbors secret devotion. Against the backdrop of revolutionary terror and violence, personal sacrifices and hidden connections shape their intertwined fates. (This is an automatically generated summary.)