A Tale of Two Cities

Author's name: Charles Dickens

If a publisher is allowed to declare that their translation is the best Arabic translation of A Tale of Two Cities to date, we at Afak Publishing and Distribution in Cairo declare it the most faithful, complete, and accurate Arabic translation of Charles Dickens's historical masterpiece to date, painstakingly translated by the eminent scholar Dr. Shahrat Al-Alam. The novel, which has sold 200 million copies to date and is the second best-selling novel in the world, is also the best-selling novel by Charles Dickens himself, and is also ranked by many Dickens critics as the best of the great British writer's novels, who is unanimously considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era, and some even consider him the greatest today. A novel of revolution, brutality, and love, the events take place in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, where the working and lower classes of France are subjected to the brutality of the aristocrats. Then, the uprising of the revolutionaries during the revolution turns into brutality that eliminates the guilty and the innocent. Between one brutality and another, a one-sided love affair arises, ending with a great lesson in self-sacrifice for the happiness of others. The novel begins with lines that are among the most beautiful and famous opening lines of novels: It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, and it was the age of foolishness. It was the time of faith, and it was the time of polytheism. It was the season of light, and it was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope, and it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, and we had nothing before us.