One of the first novels to feature an interwoven narrative, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of one exiled aristocrat, Charles Darnay, and a lawyer named Sydney Carton.

The Christmas special will feature Stephen Fry as the evil lawyer ... Charles Dickens stands alone as perhaps the world's most popular novelist. His characters are famous in their own right, his ...

The setting of most of this novels was London. Dickens can be defined as the “painter” of British life: his knowledge of the city came from his curiosity as a journalist and also from his ...