Hvem skrev it was the best of times and the worst of times?
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities er et af de kun to værker af historisk fiktion af Charles Dickens (det andet er Barnaby Rudge). Dickens baserer sig i høj grad på Den franske revolution: A History af Thomas Carlyle som en historisk kilde. Dickens skrev i sit forord til Tale, at "ingen kan håbe på at tilføje noget til filosofien i hr. Carlyles vidunderlige bog".
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities is one of only two works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens (the second being Barnaby Rudge). Dickens relies much on The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle as a historical source. Dickens wrote in his Preface to Tale that "no one can hope to add anything to the philosophy of Mr. Carlyle's wonderful book".
A Tale of Two Cities