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In the fictitious novel Tale of Two Cities, the author, Charles Dickens,

lays out a brilliant plot. Charles Dickens was born in England on February

7, 1812 near the south coast. His family moved to London when he was ten

years old and quickly went into debt. To help support himself, Charles went

to work at a blacking warehouse when he was twelve. His father was soon

imprisoned for debt and shortly thereafter the rest of the family split

apart. Charles continued to work at the blacking warehouse even after his

father inherited some money and got out of prison. When he was thirteen,

Dickens went back to school for two years. He later learned shorthand and

became a freelance court reporter. He started out as a journalist at the

age of twenty and later wrote his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He went

on to write many other novels, including Tale of Two Cities in 1859.

Tale of Two Cities takes place in France and England during the troubled

times of the French......

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