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A Tale of Two Cities, one of Charles Dickens' shortest novels, does not waste a word in telling a humanely touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bizarre and bloody events in history, the French Revolution. Newlin, the author of Everyone in Dickens and Every Thing in Dickens, has assembled a rich variety of materials on the French Revolution. These include excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's work, The French Revolution (along with a discussion of Dickens debt to that work), primary documents on "mob" behavior, the Fall of the Bastille, Thomas Paine and The Rights of Man, capital punishment and the development of the guillotine, prison isolation, human dissection and grave robbing, "voices" from prison during the Terror, and colorful extracts from the writings of travelers, victims, and executioners during the French Revolution.
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