Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and s

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the p

Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A “marvelous exploration” of Dickens’s life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels (Kirkus Review

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