The passage makes marked use of anaphora, the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of consecutive clausesfor example, it was the age. The last ran thirty weeks later, on 26 November. These famous lines, which open A Tale of Two Cities, hint at the novel’s central tension between love and family, on the one hand, and oppression and hatred, on the other. The first weekly instalment of A Tale of Two Cities ran in the first issue of All the Year Round on 30 April 1859. In this audio clip, Carole Bos (creator of AwesomeStories) reads the first chapter of the story. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities is his first of two. All but three of Dickens's previous novels had appeared only as monthly instalments. How Charles Dicken Uses Death as a Liberation in a Tale of Two Cities. From April 1859 to November 1859, Dickens also republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. It follows the lives of several characters through these events.

With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of literary fiction.The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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