Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-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. The novel has been adapted...

In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.

The story of a boy who loses both parents at an early age, and who escapes the torture of working for his pitiless stepfather to make something of himself and, with any luck, find true happiness.

"A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future"--NoveList.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A disease known as the "Hungry Death" plagues London and Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter miser whose frozen soul never thawed one degree at Christmas, may be mankind's only hope against the disease's undead victims.