Table Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

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About this edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens :
• Optimized for Kindle
• Linked Table of Contents – Quick and easy navigation to each chapter
• Charles Dickens Biography – The man behind the book

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay’s wife, Lucie Manette.

Dickens published well over a dozen major novels and novellas, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books. Dickens’s novels were initially serialized in weekly and monthly magazines, and then reprinted in standard book formats.
• The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)
• Oliver Twist (The Adventures of Oliver Twist; monthly serial in Bentley’s Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
• Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (weekly serial in Master Humphrey’s Clock, April 1840 to November 1841)
• Barnaby Rudge (Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty; weekly serial in Master Humphrey’s Clock, February to November 1841)
• A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost-story of Christmas; 1843)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit; monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)
• The Chimes (The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In; 1844)
• The Cricket on the Hearth (The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home; 1845)
• Dombey and Son (Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation; monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)
• The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-time; 1848)
• David Copperfield (The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery [Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account]; monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)
• Bleak House (monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)
• Hard Times (Hard Times: For These Times; weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)
• Little Dorrit (monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)
• A Tale of Two Cities (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)
• Great Expectations (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)
• Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)
• The Signal-Man (1866), first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.
• Edwin Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood; monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870), left unfinished due to Dickens’s death