Tale of Two Cities (Prometheus Classics)

This work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocr ...