A tale of two cities Great expectations : two novels

Summary: "The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, unfairly confined for eighteen years in the Bastille by the Marquis de St. Evremonde. The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens. Charles Darnay, concealing under that false name his identity as the nephew of the cruel Marquis, has left France and renounced his heritage. He falls in love with Lucie, Dr, Manette's daughter, and they are happily married. During the Terror, he returns to Paris, is arrested, condemned to death, and saved at the last moment by Sydney Carton, a reckless wastrel who acts out of devotion to Lucie. Carton takes his place on the scaffold, declaring "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before," surely one of the most quoted lines in all the history of literature."-- Container.

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