A Tale of Two Cities my wife? ---Here you see me." The Penguin Classics edition of the novel notes that "Not all readers have regarded the experiment as a success." J. L. Borges quipped: "Dickens lived in London. In his book "A Tale of Two Cities", based on the French Revolution, we see that he really could not write a tale of two cities. He was a resident of just one city: London." In Dickens' England, resurrection always sat firmly in a Christian context. Most broadly, Sydney Carton is resurrected in spirit at the novel's close (even as he, paradoxically, gives up his physical life
A Tale of Two Cities in his mind as he is pushed towards the slot where the blade would fall. In order of appearance: Chapter 2 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 3 Chapter 13 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". The play was produced while "A Tale of Two Cities" was being serialized in "All the Year