(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."
The French Revolution tears through these pages like a blade. At the centre of it all stands Sydney Carton — flawed, brilliant, and capable of an act of self-sacrifice that readers have never been able to forget. Charles Dickens sets his most tightly constructed novel between London and Paris during the Reign of Terror, weaving together the story of Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and the sinister Madame Defarge with extraordinary skill.
Readers call it simply a damn good story by a damn good storyteller — a novel of love, faith, revolution, and redemption that is just as relevant today as when it first appeared in 1859. The Penguin Select Classics edition captures its essential power: the oppressed rising to become the oppressors, the blood-tinged air of liberation, and the extraordinary moment when one life is given freely for another.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Dickens's original, unabridged text — an indispensable novel for every serious library.
