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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the secon historical novel by Charles Dickens. The plot centres on the years leading up to the French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. The story touches upon Dr Alexandre Manette's 1757 imprisonment, but the actual story timeline begins in 1775. The first issue of Dickens's literary periodical All the Year Round appearing April 30, 1859, contained the first of thirty-one weekly installments of the novel, which ran until November 26, 1859.

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  • The line "We had everything before us, we had nothing before us" is found in the 1st paragraph of this 1859 novel
  • The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done"
  • Dickens:"Historia de Dos Ciudades"
  • The storming of the Bastille & death carts filled with human cargo are features of this Dickens novel
  • This Dickens novel begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...."
  • Jarvis Lorry,Lucie Manette,Sydney Carton
  • This novel begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
  • This gripping Dickens novel explores the tragedy of the French Revolution firsthand
  • Its less famous second line is "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
  • Novel whose opening line says, "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
  • Dickens novel in which Sydney Carton finds himself riding in one of the "death-carts"
  • "The Dimpled Darling", Maurice Costello, played Sydney Carton in a 1911 version of this novel
  • Dr. Manette &Madame Defarge
  • This novel was based in part on Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution
  • "Some Story Regarding Multiple Metropolises"
  • Some of the men in this novel assume the Alias "Jacques"; Monsieur DeFarge calls himself Jacques Four
  • "There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine shop of Monsieur Defarge"
  • This 1859 classic begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
  • In April 1859 Dickens launched a new weekly with the 1st installation of this "tale" set in the French Revoution
  • Dickens novel containing the line "It is a far, far better thing that I do, that I have ever done"
  • Darnay's arrested; Sydney Carton drugs him & takes his place in jail
  • Monsieur the Marquis,Charles Darnay,Lucie Manette
  • "A.T.O.T.C." by Charles Dickens
  • Sydney Carton solves the problem of saving Charles Darnay's neck (literally) in this work
  • "Knitting", "Still Knitting" & "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel
  • (Harry Shearer reads the clue as Mr. Burns.) I had 1,000 monkeys at 1,000 type-writers; I could only pen, "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times", like this novel's start... stupid monkey!
  • Dickens novel that ends, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..."
  • This Dickens novel opens in the year 1775
  • Madame Defarge knits a list in code to condemn the aristocracy in this Dickens tale
  • Charles Dickens wrote 2 historical novels: "Barnaby Rudge" & this 1859 classic
  • In Spanish speaking countries, this 19th century novel is "Historia de Dos Ciudades"

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