A Tale of Two Cities
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” So begins Charles Dickens’s sweeping historical masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities.[Bokinfo]


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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s 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 author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” So begins Charles Dickens’s sweeping historical masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities.[Bokinfo]

As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the

Set before and during the French Revolution in the cities of Paris and London, A TALE OF TWO CITIES tells the story of Dr Manette’s release from imprisonment in the Bastille and his reunion with daughter, Lucie. A French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer

Aeschliman, Michael D.: - Michael D. Aeschliman is Professor of Education at Boston University, Professor of English at the University of Italian Switzerland, and author of The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism (1983, 1998). A widely published scholar and literary critic
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