Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. He was the second of eight children, born to John and Elizabeth Dickens. English novelist who is considered the largest known in the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. He has many great works that can still be found today, even many who have been appointed to the big screen. Among the most famous is the Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, The Pickwick Papers and A Christmas Carol.
"A Tale of Two Cities" which was published in 1859 is a well-known and best-selling novel to date, with total sales of more than 200 million copies. So that ranks the most famous works of fiction in literary history. This novel has also been published in Indonesian by Elex Media on October 6, 2010. You can find it in some book stores, especially Scholastic.
This novel describes the plight of the peasantry demoralized by the French because the French aristocracy before the revolution. The brutality shown by the revolutionaries against the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, there are many gaps and compare social life in London than during the same time period.
The story is very touching in this novel, tells the story of true love and sacrifice in a time of great uncertainty and fear. The most prominent in this story is Charles Darnay Sydney Carton dam. Darnay is a French nobleman who became victims of the revolution despite the wrath he is wise and good. While the British Carton is a cynical lawyer who is a rival and Darnay. But when imprisoned Darnay, Carton is precisely the one who menyelematkanya. He chose to occupy the holding cell and using the identity of his rival Darnay and let it free. All that is done is because of the magnanimity of Carton and such love for Lucie Manette, Darnay's wife. "It is much ... much better this way," said Carton said, to meet death. He sacrificed for Lucie, his loved ones, and to France even though he was British.
This novel has also inspired the birth of a film. There are at least five films with the same title, "A Tale of Two Cities". Three films made in a silent version in 1911, 1917 and 1922. One black and white film in 1935 and another in the color film in 1958.
Another film was born from the story of this novel, among others, "The Only Way" in 1927 and the History of the World, Part I in 1981.
On June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke at his home, after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. The next day, on June 9, and after five years of the railway accident at Staplehurst June 9, 1865, he died at Hill Place Gad. Contrary to his wish to be buried in Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and Strictly private manner" he was buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. An outstanding print tombstones at the cemetery reads:. "To the memory of Charles Dickens (the most popular British writers) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, June 9, 1870, at the age of 58 years. He was an observer of the poor, suffering, and oppressed .... "the last words of Dickens, as reported in obituary in The Times says:
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art“
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