A tale of two cities
(Book)

This edition was created for Recovering the Classics, a collection or original cover art from artists and designers around the world for some of the greatest classics in the public domain.

Original cover art and design by Roberlan Borges.

First published in 1859.This edition published in Politics & Prose 2013. Book design by Justin Keenan.

'It was the best of times, it was the the worst of times,' we are told at the outset, but it is mostly brutality on display in this richly-woven and moving tale, set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution. Two men, one a French aristocrat, one a dissipated English barrister, both love the same woman. Their rivalry takes them through cobblestone alleys thick with filth and violence, into the company of the revolution's most ruthless plotters, and culminates in one of the great tragic moment of world literature. ----back cover