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A Tale of Two Cities

  
Poster advertising John Martin-Harvey in The Only Way, adapted from A Tale of Two Cities. Martin-Harvey appeared in numerous productions of this play from the late 19th century to early 20th.
Two clergymen, the Reverends Wills and Langbridge, seized Dickens’s twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and turned it into a play called The Only Way. John Martin-Harvey made a career out of playing Sydney Carton and uttering those immortal lines “It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done….”