# A Tale of Two Cities

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- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-970-2
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2012-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by 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... 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.