A Tale of Two Cities

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"Charles Dickens wrote only two historical novels. The first, Barnaby Rudge, set in England during the latter part of the 18th century, is considered one of his weakest works, while the second, A Tale of Two Cities, is judged a masterpiece. The work is atypical in that it contains little of the humour, black and otherwise, found in much of Dickens' writing -- appropriate, perhaps, as A Tale of Two Cities is set during the terror of the French Revolution and the surrounding years." -- From the introduction