A new edition of one of Dickens's supreme novels, considered the author's most formally perfect work, equipped with dozens of illustrations by three of the most famous English illustrators of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with whom Dickens' work is inextricably linked.
A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris before and during the Great French Revolution, was published in 1859. It was originally serialized in the magazine All the Year Round, founded and directed by the author himself. Against the background of the troubled fates of the central characters - the French emigrant Charles Darnay, Dr. Manette, his daughter Lucia, or the official Jarvis Lorry - the author presents an extremely impressive and emotional picture of the dramatic revolutionary times, when arbitrariness, violence, raging mobs and, later, terror became the norm. The titular two cities in which the story takes place are Paris and London, with the English classic portraying Paris as a center of inhumanity and twisted rampage, while London, despite its dark sides, remains for him a city of sanity and the lingering hope of a normal life.
A gripping story of courage, sacrifice, love and revenge in the shadow of the guillotine.