Background.
‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.‘ is a quotation from A Tale of Two Cities (Book 3, Chapter 15).
A Tale of Two Cities is the twelfth novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in weekly installments between April 1859 and November 1859. It is one of two historical novels by Dickens (the other being Barnaby Rudge). The plot centres on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobean Reign of Terror.
Context.
‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known‘ are the closing lines of the novel A Tale of Two Cities, said by the character Sydney Carton as he is about to be executed on the guillotine.
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