A Tale of Two Cities

This stirring tale of resurrection, renunciation and revolution is one of Dickens's best and most popular novels. Superficially it appears the least Dickensian of all his novels. However, George Woodcok points out that, written at a point of crisis in Dickens's life, it was closely linked with past and present matters of deep personal importance to him. As such, this novel becomes the embodiment of Dickens's own passions, fears and forebodings: the revolution which engulfs the characters... Voir plus