| Author/Contributor(s): | Dickens, Charles |
| Publisher: | Penguin Clásicos |
| Date: | 12/22/2026 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
«Eran los mejores tiempos, eran los peores tiempos; era el siglo de la locura y el siglo de la razón; era la edad de la fe y de la incredulidad; era la época de la luz, era la época de las tinieblas; era la primavera de la esperanza y el invierno de la desesperación; lo teníamos todo, no teníamos nada.»
Con estas palabras memorables se abre el telón de la magnífica Historia de dos ciudades, con Londres y París como las grandes protagonistas del relato y la Revolución Francesa como el acontecimiento que va a cambiar para siempre la vida de todos.
Ningún libro de historia puede competir con la pluma de Dickens para retratar una época: violencia, tumultos, sangre, espionaje, heroísmo, soberbia, mezquindad; todo aparece con una vivacidad incomparable.
Y en esa vorágine que todo lo trastorna, aparecen personajes como Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Lorry o Madame Defarge, que van tejiendo la historia de sus propias vidas, tan iluminadas por el amor como amenazadas por la guillotina.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
London and Paris take center stage against the backdrop of the French Revolution, an event that changes everyone’s lives forever. An unforgettable novel by Charles Dickens (1812–1870).
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of foolishness and the age of reason; it was the age of faith and of disbelief; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope and the winter of despair; we had everything, we had nothing.”
With these memorable words, the curtain rises on the magnificent A Tale of Two Cities, with London and Paris as the story’s great protagonists and the French Revolution as the event destined to change everyone’s lives forever.
No history book can rival Dickens’s pen when it comes to portraying an era: violence, upheaval, bloodshed, espionage, heroism, arrogance, and pettiness—all are depicted with incomparable vividness.
And amid this whirlwind that turns everything upside down, characters such as Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Lorry, and Madame Defarge emerge, weaving the stories of their own lives—lives illuminated by love even as they are threatened by the guillotine.