“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of loneliness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity… ” 

These words, which could have been written in this day and age, were written in the 19th century and certainly provide food for thought.. With one of the most famous and promising opening sentences in literature, Dickens sets A tale of two cities at times of the French Revolution; in an epoch of aristocratic corruption and outrageous luxury while common people starved… It was such an unbearable situation that it led revolutionaries to rise up against the powerful.

This is another fictional story set during a historical event, a masterpiece which also explores universal topics like loyalty, family, love, suffering and sacrifice.

Alba Fernández,Lucía Wasiluk, Ana Ferreira and Ariadna Madera have researched a lot about the author, the novel and its historical background: