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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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46,200 words, approx. 154 pages
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A Tale of Two Cities Quotes
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A Tale of Two Cities ( 1859 ) is an historical novel by Charles Dickens . The plot centers on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror . It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton...


Author Biography

Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens
Birth Date: February 7, 1812
Death Date: 1870
Place of Birth: Port-sea, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist, journalist

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Biography of Charles John Huffam Dickens
17877 words, approx. 59.6 pages
The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...
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Biography of Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
17117 words, approx. 57.1 pages
The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...
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Biography of Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
13529 words, approx. 45.1 pages
From the appearance of his first full-length work of prose fiction, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, in 1836-1837, Charles Dickens has retained his place as one of the best-loved and most widely read novelists in the world. Not so well known i...
 


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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 1859 Summary
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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 1859 Introduction A Tale of Two Cities is set before and during the French Revolution, and examines the harsh conditions and brutal realities of life during this difficult time. While the conditions before the...
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A Tale of Two Cities Summary
3,621 words, approx. 12 pages
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens An English novelist who lived from 1812 to 1870, Charles Dickens was twelve years old when his father was sent to debtor's prison. Almost the entire Dickens family accompanied Dickens' father and took up residence...
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A Tale of Two Cities Information
6,780 words, approx. 23 pages
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens. The plot centres on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It starts with Dr. Alexandre Manette's 1757 imprisonment and...


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A Tale of Two Cities
09/18/1998: 606 words, approx. 2 pages
Forward 09-18-1998 A Tale of Two Cities There are two cities called Nogales. One of them is in Arizona, just north of Mexico; the other is just south of the border. Five years ago, the former was bathing in a boom; it...
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
A tale of two cities
01/17/2006: 455 words, approx. 2 pages
Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News; Census Data Burt Hubbard Denver Rocky Mountain News 01-17-2006 A tale of two cities One is a Western city that in recent years shed its cow- town image as it gained white-collar jobs at the same time...
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Pittsburgh, with its `everyman' personality, a popular setting for TV shows
8/7/2007: 790 words, approx. 3 pages
Maybe it's this former steel town's blue-collar traditions. Or its down-to-earth reputation. Or its many connections to the entertainment industry.Whatever the reason, Pittsburgh has become a popular setting for TV shows.Spike TV's bank heist miniseries "The Kill Point" is set here, and was shot here,...
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Review: Google software for Mac is OK
4/25/2007: 948 words, approx. 3 pages
Mac users have been blessed with an easy-to-use tool for searching deep inside documents, not just their file names. So it struck me as odd that Google Inc. would be offering similar software.But after playing with Google Desktop for Mac, I'm partly sold.Desktop shares many...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lawrence Frank
11,553 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Frank states that the hero of the novel is not Sydney Carton, but Charles Darnay. Using Georg Lukacs's The Historical Novel, Frank argues that Darnay is a “modernist hero.”
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Critical Essay by Cates Baldridge
9,093 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Baldridge explores an aspect of the French Revolution depicted in A Tale of Two Cities that he claims has been neglected by critics: the assertion that “the group, the class, the Republic—and not the individual—comprise, or should comprise, the basic unit of society.”
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Critical Essay by Tom Lloyd
8,811 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Lloyd discusses the “precarious nature of identity” illustrated by Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities.
 
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Essay Grade: 88%
The 19th Century Critical Realism and Charles Dickens
4,636 words, approx. 16 pages
In the 1830s, in the advanced capitalist countries such as France and Britain, a whiff of new literature trends appeared. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
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Revenge in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
2,370 words, approx. 8 pages
Revenge is the primary theme in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Rape initiates the novel’s cycle of violence and guilt. The aristocrats deserved their fate, but the passions of the people replaced one set of oppressors by another.
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Christianity in a Tale of Two Cities
2,234 words, approx. 7 pages
One of the underlying motives in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the reinforcement of Christian values in 18th century Victorian England. Dickens was very concerned with the accepted social norms of industrialized England, many of which he felt were very inhumane. Christian values were challenged, largely due to the recent publication of Darwin's Origins of a Species, and philosophy along with literature was greatly affected.
 


A Tale of Two Cities Study Pack

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