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Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindleâs library. With the possible exception of A Christmas Carol, it is his most popular novel, and according to many, his best.Ĭompatible epub â All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 â Kindle devices and apps. It also, in its first and last lines, has two of the most famous lines in literature. Even so, Dickens made his name and reputation on telling stories full of characters one could be invested in, care about, and despise, and this novel has all of those and more. Dickens mimicked Carlyleâs style, his chronology, and his overall characterization of the revolution although A Tale of Two Cities is fiction, the historical events described are largely accurate, sometimes exactly so.

When he wrote to Carlyle asking him for books to read on background, Carlyle sent him two cartloads full. These disparate elements are tied together as only Dickens can, and in the process he tells the story of the French Revolution.Ĭharles Dickens was fascinated by Thomas Carlyleâs magnum opus The French Revolution according to Dickensâ letters, he read it â500 timesâ and carried it with him everywhere while he was working on this novel. A man has a wine shop in Paris with a wife who knits at the bar. A young man is acquitted of being a traitor, due in part to the efforts of a rather selfish lout who is assisting the young manâs attorney. A young woman discovers the father sheâs never known is not dead but alive, if not entirely well. Standard Ebooksġ37,382 words (8 hours 20 minutes) with a reading ease of 69.72 (fairly easy)Ī doctor is released from the Bastille after being falsely imprisoned for almost eighteen years. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens