Brunch & Books: A Tale of Two Cities

Are you a Needle who reads for pleasure and wants to connect with others to discuss books and build friendships? Join us for our monthly book club exploring various genres, mostly fiction.

This month's book is A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859, 544 pages). The book is available via Libby (Fulton Co and Sequoyah systems), Hoopla (Fulton), and Palace (Fulton and Sequoyah systems).

A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, 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 Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.