Read A Tale of Two Cities

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

Please, sir, I want some more; Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Bill Sikes.

A lawsuit that outlives everyone in it, and the fog over Chancery; Dickens' biggest novel.

D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

Revolutionary Paris rendered building by building, once the patches landed.