“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities masterfully weaves together the lives of disparate characters against the cataclysmic backdrop of the French Revolution. The story begins in London, where the English physician Dr. Manette is released after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment in the Bastille. His reunion with his daughter, Lucie Manette, sparks a tale that soon transports the reader to the bloody streets of Paris. Caught between the cruel aristocracy and the furious revolutionaries are the cynical English lawyer Sydney Carton—who harbors a deep, unrequited love for Lucie—and the noble French émigré Charles Darnay, Lucie’s husband. A sweeping epic of sacrifice, resurrection, and the revolutionary fervor that consumes a nation, this novel culminates in one of literature’s most famous and poignant acts of redemption.