After "Oliver Twist," the most famous work by Charles Dickens: a story full of entanglements set during the time of the French Revolution, told with pace and atmospheric depth. "A Tale of Two Cities" is the most popular novel of the great English storyteller. While the French Revolution takes its bloody course in Paris, the Frenchman Charles Darnay, who has emigrated to London, falls in love with the beautiful Lucie, the daughter of Dr. Manette. The doctor has suffered greatly under the old regime, and the new rulers want to bring Darnay to the guillotine.