A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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Civil unrest and dramatic upheavals in the French Revolutionary era set the stage for Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. Two men, one French, one English, are at the heart of the novel. Their characters and fates contrast, but both have their romantic sights on the same woman. Romance and rivalries blossom amid the conflict, and yet the fragility of human life and hopes is made all too clear. In this richly-woven and moving tale, no life is untouched by the bloody and fearsome events of the revolution that defined an age.

About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was uniquely successful as a writer during his lifetime, enjoying huge followings from readers and audiences in England and America. When, early in life, sudden misfortune sent his family into extreme poverty, the young Charles was sent to work in a factory. Never forgetting this childhood misery, Dickens wrote often in later life about the plights of the working poor. As a young man he became a law clerk and stenographer, moving into journalism in the 1830s. Dickens's early journalistic sketches formed the basis for his first literary works. With the 1836 serialized publication of The Pickwick Papers, his unparalleled success as an author began. Dickens went on to write such famous novels as David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times, and Bleak House, with all of his works remaining in print to this day.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ...

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