A Tale of Two Cities

“It was the best of times it was the worst of times…”So begins Charles Dickens’s immortal masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities — a sweeping story of love sacrifice and redemption set against the turbulent backdrop of the French Revolution. First published in 1859 this novel remains one of the most widely read and celebrated works in world literature admired for its unforgettable characters historical depth and timeless moral power.The story moves between London and Paris two cities gripped by vastly different fates. In England the exiled French aristocrat Charles Darnay seeks peace and a new beginning. In revolutionary France the once-oppressed masses rise in violent fury. Caught between these worlds are Lucie Manette a woman of compassion and grace; her father Dr. Manette who has been freed after eighteen years of wrongful imprisonment in the Bastille; and Sydney Carton a cynical lawyer whose unrequited love for Lucie drives him to a profound act of self-sacrifice.