A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 1859 · Fiction

Full text · 45 chaptersNarrated in your voice

Public domain · added by Library

What it's about

The French Revolution as seen from a London law office, with the best-known opening and closing sentences in the language between them. Dickens is writing about mobs, and about the fact that the mob had reasons.

Reading plan

Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.

Read together

Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.

Who it's for

- Anyone who can quote the first line and nothing after it - Readers of historical fiction at its most propulsive - Anyone interested in how a crowd becomes a terror