Dickens's historical novel of the French Revolution in a gorgeous clothbound edition 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.
