本书是世界最伟大的批判现实主义杰作之一，也是英国文豪狄更斯作品中故事情节最曲折惊险、最惊心动魄的小说之一，小说以18世纪的法国大革命为背景，故事中将巴黎、伦敦两个大城市连结起来，叙述梅尼特医生一家充满了爱与冒险的遭遇，中间穿插了贵族的残暴、人民的愤怒、审判间谍......（The book is one of the greatest masterpieces of critical realism in the world. It is also the most capturing novel written by British writer Dickens. With the French Revolution in the 18th century as the background, the novel connects London and Paris by telling the love and adventures of Doctor Manett family. In the novel, it also tells the tyrranty of nobles, the anger of people and trial of spies. ）