A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles…
April 1859 CE
The historical novel, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his eighteen-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met.
The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.