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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..' The story of Lucie Manette-the daughter of an English doctor, the mystifying Charles Darnay-the nephew of a marquis and the unfathomable Sydney Carton-Darnay's lawyer, a Tale of Two cities works its way through London and Paris and brings before the reader the most remarkable saga of love, chaos, duality and uprising, all in the backdrop of the French Revolution. First published in thirty-one weekly installments in 1859, this is Dickens' best known work of historical fiction. About the Author Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, the second of eight children. Although he had little formal education, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his life and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1859 novel, a Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best known work of historical fiction.