Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens Annotated Novel

A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historic novel via Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-yr-lengthy imprisonment within the Bastille in Paris and his release to stay in London together with his daughter Lucie, whom he had by no means met. The tale is about in opposition to the situations that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.