A Tale of Two Cities

by Dickens, Charles | Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published 05/05/1993 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of the Wordsworth Classics series
Paperback | 352 pages
197 x 126 x 19mm | 256g

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle’s great work – The French Revolution.

‘The best story I have written’ was Dickens’ own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author’s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.