A Tale of Two Cities
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A Tale of Two Cities
| Author | Charles Dickens |
|---|---|
| Published | 1859 |
| Pages | 488 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Dickens’s novel of London and Paris before and through the Terror, organised around a man who goes to the guillotine in another’s place. Written in weekly instalments for his own magazine in 1859, it is his tightest novel and one of only two historical novels he wrote. |
A Tale of Two Cities
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, in the Ages 13–99+ band under Fiction.
Connections
- Charles Dickens — the author.
- Great Expectations — the novel he serialised in the same weekly two years later, also on this list.
- Literature
What links here
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