Sydney Carton, a bright young man who has seemingly wasted his life, acts behind the scenes to effect a higher justice within the maelstrom of power struggles and spy intrigues between France and England, and persecutions by the government and the governed in France. He loves a young French woman named Lucie Manette, who marries his good friend Charles Darnay, a teacher of languages with a secret aristocratic background. Set against the fiery backdrop of the French Revolution, story seems quite different from Dickens’s other famous novels, but has little to do with politics – it is, in fact, antipolitical. It’s more a story of personal loyalty, friendship, and communion, even in turbulent times.
