Tale of Two Cities

<b>The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...</b> <p/>The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>. With dramatic eloquence he brings to life a time of terror and treason a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning. <p/><b>With an Introduction by Frederick Busch <br>and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson</b>