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364 p. : ill First published in 1859 Summary: The story of three French exiles and their English friends during the French Revolution. In England, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for the same woman, Lucie Manette. Lucie is the daughter of the aging Dr. Manette, who has been recently released after spending eighteen years as a political prisoner in the French Bastille. All are drawn back against their wills to the streets of Paris and the Reign of Terror, where they fall under the shadow of the guillotine