General
- Evil Intentions are the Evil Person's Own Undoing
- "The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination: A Tale of Two Cities"
- Enumeration as motif in the novel
- Likeness, simile, connectedness, and difference in the novel
- Allusion in A Tale of Two Cities and Wilkie Collins's No Name
- Terrible Secret from the Past Blights the Present (a motif shared with "The Haunted Man")
- Carlyle's Influence upon A Tale of Two Cities
- Influence of Bulwer-Lytton
- Sydney Carton's Death and the Victorian Debate about Suicide
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859): A Model of the Integration of History and Literature
- Chapman & Hall's "Advertiser" for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (Nov., 1859)
Adaptations
- Dramatic Adaptations of Dickens's Novels
- Fox Cooper's 1860 Dramatic Adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities
- Films and Plays from A Tale of Two Cities (1899-1980)
- Three essays on adaptations
Dickens and His Illustrators
- Images of the French Revolution from Various Editions of A Tale of Two Cities (1859-1910)
- Phiz's Sixteen Monthly Illustrations
- Etching, Wood-engraving, or Lithography in Phiz's Illustration for A Tale of Two Cities?
- Illustrations by Fred Barnard in the Household Edition
- A Discussion of Phiz's June 1859 Plates for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) — the last Dickens novel Phiz illustrated
- A Note on Phiz's Wrapper Design for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities in Monthly Serialisation in All the Year Round
- John McLenan's illustrations for Harpers's Weekly (New York, 1859)
- A. A. Dixon's 1905 illustrations
Study Materials for A Tale of Two Cities
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Bibliography
Allingham, Philip V. "'Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Illustrated: A Critical Reassessment of Hablot Knight Browne's Accompanying Plates." Dickens Studies. 33 (2003): 109-158.
Bolton, H. Philip. "A Tale of Two Cities." Dickens Dramatized. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall, 1987. pp. 395-412. [136 adaptations]
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” and the French Revolution. Ed. Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh, and Jon Mee. Palgrave US, 2009. xi + 212 pp. [Review by Laurence Davies]
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, November 1859.
Morley, Malcolm. "The Stage Story of A Tale of Two Cities." Dickensian 51 (1955): 40.
Sanders, Andrew. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Woodcock, George. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
Created 21 June 2014 Last modified 15 December 2025