A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens Publication date: 2025 Book classification: Fiction and Novel Publisher: Afaq for Publishing and Distribution Format: Paperback Synopsis of the novel: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens... If a publisher can declare that its translation is the best Arabic translation to date of the novel "A Tale of Two Cities," then we at Afaq for Publishing and Distribution in Cairo declare this. We declare that this is the most faithful, complete, and accurate Arabic translation to date of the magnificent historical Charles Dickens, translated with extraordinary effort by Dr. Shahrat Al-Alam. The novel, of which 200 million copies have been sold so far, ranks second among the best-selling novels in the world ever. It is also the best-selling novel among Charles Dickens' own works, and many critics of Dickens classify it as the best among the works of the great British writer, who is unanimously considered by critics to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, and some still regard him as the greatest to this day. The novel of revolution, brutality, and love, takes place in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, where the working and lower classes in France are under the brutality of the aristocrats. Then the uprising of the revolutionaries turns into brutality that destroys both the guilty and the innocent. Amidst one brutality after another, a one-sided love story develops, ending with a great lesson in self-sacrifice for the happiness of others. The novel begins with lines considered among the most beautiful and famous opening lines of novels: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity. It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness. It was spring of hope, it was winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us."