A Tale of Two Cities

Resumen del libro

As the Revolution is still raging in France, in London the barrister Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find themselves rivals for the affections of Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner who was released from the Bastille and moved to the English capital. Through a chain of events, they both end up in Paris, where they are caught up in the anarchic forces of the Terror and fi nd themselves facing the looming threat of the guillotine.Representing a departure from the social satire of most of his other novels and deemed by Dickens himself to be "the best story I have written", A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful historical novel about the repercussions of major world events on the personal lives of people on both sides of the Channel.

Biografía del autor

Charles John Huffam Dickens (Landport, Portsmouth, 1812-Gads Hill Place, 1870) es uno de los grandes escritores de la historia de la literatura. Sus novelas campan en el canon universal por derecho propio y su influencia fue tan amplia que todavía ejerce su magisterio. Vida de Jesucristo, obra menos conocida pero de la misma calidad a la que nos tiene acostumbrados, es el tercer título de este autor en Espuela de Plata, donde hemos publicado El indolente viaje de dos aprendices perezosos y otros cuentos (2014) y Tiempos difíciles (2018).