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    A Study Guide for Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
    A Study Guide for Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
    A Study Guide for Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
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    A Study Guide for Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

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    A Study Guide for Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535820615
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      Novels for Students, Volume 5

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      A Tale of Two Cities

      Charles Dickens

      1859

      Introduction

      A Tale of Two Cities occupies a central place in the canon of Charles Dickens's works. This novel of the French Revolution was originally serialized in the author's own periodical All the Year Round. Weekly publication of chapters 1-3 of Book 1 began on April 30, 1859. In an innovative move, Dickens simultaneously released installments of the novel on a monthly basis, beginning with all of Book 1 in June and concluding with the last eight chapters of Book 3 in December. Dickens took advantage of the novel's serial publication to experiment with characterization, plot, and theme. He described the work in a letter to his friend John Forster, cited in Ruth Glancy's A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens's Revolutionary Novel, as a picturesque story rising in every chapter, with characters true to nature, but whom the story should express more than they should express themselves by dialogue. The novel that emerged from his experimentation is now regarded as one of Dickens's most popular and most innovative works.

      Dickens's work was very popular with the reading public when it was first published. One review in the magazine Athenaeum stated that A Tale of Two Cities had attracted the praise of a hundred thousand readers.

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