Federal Laws on Short-Term Disability at Work. Short-term disability coverage can help replace lost income. John Rowley/Photodisc/Getty Images. Federal statutes do not provide for replacement income for employees who are unable to work due to short-term disability or medical conditions. They do, however, protect an employee's position and benefits during disability leave.
While performing in The Frozen Deep, Dickens was given a play to read called The Dead Heart by Watts Phillips which had the historical setting, the basic storyline, and the climax that Dickens used in A Tale of Two Cities. For other uses, see A Tale of Two Cities (disambiguation). A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
The first volume of the first edition was published in 1812, containing 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in 1815. For the second edition, two volumes were issued in 1819 and a third in 1822, totalling 170 tales.tories were added, and also subtracted, from one edition to the next, until the seventh held 211 tales. All editions were extensively illustrated, first by Philipp Grot Johann and, after his death in 1892, by German illustrator Robert Leinweber.