A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities (Original Title: A Tale of Two Cities ) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens. Written in 1859, the book with over 200 million copies sold, is the most printed original English book of all time and one of the most famous works of world literature.
Formation
Dickens wrote the novel in 1859, when his own life underwent significant changes. He divorced his magazine Household Words came in, as he launched a new magazine All the Year Round.
"It was the best of times, the worst of times what it, what it the age of wisdom, it what the age of foolishness ... " so begins his novel about the life of Dr. Manette and his daughter Lucie in two cities, London and Paris. A gloomy, playing in the London fog early scene, a trip to Paris to retrieve the years innocent prisoner in the Bastille held Dr Manette to London, the love story of his daughter Lucie to Charles Darnay, a London-based Marquis de Evremonde, and the dramatic links with the Parisian capital during the reign of terror la guillotine are the contents of this novel. Where an eternally drunken protagonist, Sydney Carton, in a supporting role out is the tragic hero of this story.
The idea for the story had Charles Dickens, as he himself wrote in the preface of the 1859er edition, while attending the theater drama The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins, which he performed together with his children and friends. Use the impressions of his stay in Paris in winter 1855, based on the reports of the Scotsman Thomas Carlyle on the French Revolution, he wrote a book full of sadness, but also full of enthusiasm.
Content
Setting for the novel is set in Paris and London. It tells the life story of Dr. Manette, his daughter Lucie and her husband Charles Darnay in the turmoil of the French Revolution. When Charles is sentenced to death by the revolutionaries, saves his young barrister Sydney Carton, who is in love with Lucie, life: Instead of Lucie's husband ascended the scaffold Sydney and goes for him in death.