Charles Dickens



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English author Charles Dickens is today considered one of the most significant European novelists. Although Dickens typically wove social criticism, strong character development, and powerful detail into novels about contemporary 19th-century society, the same techniques are found in A Tale of Two Cities (1859), one of his infrequent ventures into historical fiction. A Tale of Two Cities takes place during the French Revolution. The book’s opening lines, recited by an actor, set a tone of ambiguity for the story of a man’s discovery of his own conscience in the midst of tumultuous historical forces.

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Novel; Spy Fiction; Dickens, Charles John Huffam; English Literature; Victorian Britain

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