A Tale of Two Cities

This Top Five Classics edition of A Tale of Two Cities includes:

• More than 40 illustrations from the original 1859 edition by "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne) and from the 1872 edition by Frederick Barnard
• The complete, unabridged, original text
• Author bio and bibliography
• Introduction by novelist and Dickens scholar Andrei Baltakmens

A Tale of Two Cities opens in 1775, when Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter Lucie after having been locked away in the Bastille for 18 years. Lucie nurtures her half-mad father back to health, but their troubles are far from over, as their lives become entangled with the emigrant son of the Marquis St. Evrémonde, the wayward ne'er-do-well Sydney Carton, and the vengeful Madame and Monsieur Defarge. Set against the terror and turmoil of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most loved works—a historical thriller of high drama and surprising depth.