A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens,set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry,demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution,the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries towards the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution,and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.It follows the lives of several characters through these events.With sales of over 200 million copies,A tale of two Cities is the biggest selling novel in history.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens,set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry,demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution,the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries towards the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution,and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.It follows the lives of several characters through these events.With sales of over 200 million copies,A tale of two Cities is the biggest selling novel in history.
Autorenporträt
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.