March 26, 2009
A Tale of Two Cities
Written by Charles Dickens
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this."
—Chapter 3, pages 11-12
Fun Facts
- A Tale of Two Cities is one of the two historical novels Dickens ever wrote; the other one is Barnaby Rudge.
- A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in All Year Round, a magazine that Dickens created.
- It has been estimated that one in ten people in England was a reader of Dickens during the Victorian era.
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