A tale of two cities

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A Tale of Two Cities(1859) is anovelbyCharles Dickens, set inLondonandParisbefore and during theFrench Revolution. With wellover 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.The novel depicts the plight of the French psantry demoralized by theFrencharistocracyin the yrs lding up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the formeraristocratsin the rly yrs of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of severalprotagoniststhrough these events. The most notable areCharles DarnayandSydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated Britishbarristerwho endvours to redeem his ill-spent life out of hisunrequited lovefor Darnay's wife. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly installments in Dickens' new literary periodical titledAll the Yr Round. From April 1859 to November 1859