Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After eighteen years as a political
prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his
daughter in England. There two very different men Charles Darnay an exiled French aristocrat
and Sydney Carton a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer become enmeshed through their
love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London they are all drawn against their
will to the vengeful bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and
soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
