It was the time leading up to the French Revolution -- a time when the injustice and brutality of the French aristocracy was met with a lust for vengeance on the part of the starving peasantry. Against that backdrop, set in the cities of London and Paris, Dickens relates his unforgettable tale of the guilty, the innocent, and the falsely accused -- and an uncanny accident of fate that enables one man to sacrifice himself for love while saving another man from certain doom.,
