One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

A Tale of Two Cities

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

A Tale of Two Cities

By CHARLES DICKENS Condensation by SARA A. HAMLIN ON a cold November night, in the year 1775, the English mailcoach, on its way from London…

A Tale of Two Cities: Manette

About eighteen years before the story opens, Doctor Manette, a prominent young physician of Paris, had suddenly disappeared. Everything was…

A Tale of Two Cities: Sydney

Five years later, in the court-room of the Old Bailey in London, a young Frenchman was on trial for his life. Near him sat an untidy…

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