A Tale of Two Cities (Townsend Library Edition)

This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading.

The year is 1789. In London, Lucie Darnay lives quietly with her father, who is a former prisoner, and her husband and child.

In Paris, the bloody French Revolution is about to begin. How will the uprisings in faraway France affect Lucie and those she loves? What dreadful secrets from the distant past threaten their security, even their lives? Who will survive the violence that is spreading toward them like a wildfire? --From the Publisher