A Tale of Two Cities（双城记）（III）（英文版）

It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great pgsk.comntly plotted, the novel is rich in drama, romance, and heroics that culminate in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the pgsk.comy imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman — Charles Darnay — falsely accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to another man in the courtroom, the dissolute lawyer's clerk Sydney Carton. It is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than once.