A Tale of Two Cities Penguin English Library — Charles Dickens

Liberty equality fraternity or death the last much the easiest to bestow O Guillotine Described by Dickens as the best story I have written A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood and a London where the poor starve In the midst of the chaos two men an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer This is the Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War