A Tale of Two Cities

London, 1775. An elderly bank manager Jarvis Lorry informs a 17-year-old Lucie Manette that her father is not dead (she thought otherwise), and from the moment she was born, he has been kept in the Bastille because of accusations of a cruel Marquis St. Evremonde. He is released now and lives in Paris with his former servant Defarge.  

The historical novel by Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities became paradigmatic. It is confirmed that with the circulation of 200 million of exemplars, it is not only the most popular work by the author in English speaking countries, but also the main bestseller in the history of the English prose.