A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989) is a modern account of the people and events of the French Revolution that show how the rational goals of the Revolution mix with irrational elements of the same period.
The Pickwick Papers (first serialized 1836-1837), Charles Dickens's tremendously popular first novel, concentrates on the relationship between middle-class Mr. Pickwick and his lively Cockney servant Sam Weller.
A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (1843) is Dickens's perennially popular story about how the spirits of Christmas turn an old miser's outlook back to humanity.
Dickens's Great Expectations (1861) is the story of a young man's slow advancement in society against the backdrop of mid-Victorian England.
War and Peace (1866) is Leo Tolstoy's study of Russian society during the period of the Napoleonic Wars and the French invasion of Russia.

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Regarding the scene in which the residents of Saint Antoine scurry after the spilling wine, what...

In much the same manner as John Steinbeck uses intercalary chapters in The Grapes of Wrath, Charles Dickens employs Chapter V of Book the First of A Tale of Two Cities almost as an intercalary...
How does A Tale of Two Cities measure up?How does A Tale of Two Cities compare to Dickens's other...

I have to admit that this is the Dickens work I have never been able to read. I've tried at least a dozen times to read it, but it bores me so that I can't get past the fourth chapter. I've read...
Why did Charles Dickens write A Tale of Two Cities?

Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities as an exploration of love and sacrifice, and as a warning that the poor should not be ignored. To understand why Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, we...
Who is the hero of A Tale of Two Cities?

Most definitely Carton is the hero. Who would willingly take the place of a man who is about to be executed? There is no indication in the rest of the story that he is suicidal or has a death wish....
Chapter 1 - What is the meaning of the first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities?

This first paragraph of Dickens is a beautiful example of paradoxes, paradoxes to which each reader can relate. For, no historical period is without its benefits and its deficiencies. Also,...