Dickens's novel of London and Paris in the years leading up to and through the French Revolution, issued in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena as part of its Timeless Classics series. The story opens with Doctor Manette released from long imprisonment in the Bastille and carried back to England, and gathers around his daughter Lucie, the emigrant French aristocrat Charles Darnay, and the dissipated English barrister Sydney Carton, whose resemblance to Darnay decides the ending. Behind them run the Defarges and their wine shop in Saint Antoine, the knitted register of names, and a Terror that consumes those who made it.
It is one of Dickens's shorter and more tightly plotted books, driven less by the crowded comic incident of his earlier work than by coincidence, sacrifice and the long reach of an old injustice. The famous opening and closing lines are among the most quoted in English fiction.
This is an English-language edition from a Sri Lankan publisher, produced for readers here who want the standard classics in affordable local editions — school and university students working through set texts, and general readers building a shelf of English fiction. Suitable for anyone coming to the novel for the first time, and for readers returning to it.
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552132032
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