'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer...This is the Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.