Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens` greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle`s great work - The French Revolution - and also on his own observations and investigations during numerous visits to Paris.`The best story I have written` was Dickens` own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author`s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.