Book description
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 Who 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.
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 Who 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.
