London in Fiction

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: A Christmas Carol, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Threepenny Opera, The Invisible Man, The Day of the Triffids, Drones Club, Neverwhere, Oliver Twist, Neasden F.C., Berkeley Square, Junior Ganymede Club, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, Peter and Wendy, The Secret Adversary, The Mysterons, Trapped in the Sky, World War Three, East End of London in popular culture, London Underground in popular culture, Paddington Bear, Aliens of London, The Chimes, On the Buses, The Cricket on the Hearth, Winged Assassin, The Rag Trade, The Star of Christmas, Big Ben Strikes Again, List of films set in London, Vile Bodies, Operation Time, The Adventures of Roderick Random, Londinium, The Girl Who Came to Supper, List of television shows set in London, Conceit, The Far Country, London Calling, Riceyman Steps, The British Museum Is Falling Down, List of video games set in London, Yus, My Dear, King Rat, Coal Hill School, The Deptford Mice, The Nanny, List of music videos set in London, Threepenny Novel, Prince Bob. Excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolut...