Though the author counted it among his best, some see Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities as the least Dickensian of his works. Despite critical attacks for its lack of humor and realism, the novel has become one of the author's most popular.
The title, Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Charles Dickens, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
