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...

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The Life of Charles Dickens - Historic UKCharles Dickens (1812-1870) was a prolific Victorian-era author and social critic known for Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. Rising from a childhood of poverty to become a celebrated novelist, he utilized his experiences of working in a factory to highlight social injustice, poverty, and institutional failures in 19th-century London.