A Tale of Two Cities

With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." Sidney Carton joins that exalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. His dramatic story, set against the volcanic fury of the French Revolution and pervaded by the ominous rumble of the death carts trundling toward the guillotine, is the heart-stirring tale of a heroic soul in a an age gone mad.