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of a triumphant reception, he returned disillusioned. His experiences are recorded in American Notes (1842). Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) did not repeat its predecessors’ success, but this was quickly redressed by the huge popularity of the Christmas Books, of which the first, A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843. During 1844-6 Dickens travelled abroad and he began Dombey and Son (1846-8) while in Switzerland. This and David Copperfield (1849-50) were more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early novels. In later works, such as Bleak House (1852-3) and Little Dorrit (1855-7), Dickens’s social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. In 1850 Dickens started the weekly periodical Household Words, succeeded in 1859 by All the Year Round; in these he published Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860-61). Dickens’s health was failing during the 1860s and the physical strain of the public readings which he began in 1858 hastened his decline, although Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) retained some of his best comedy. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed and he died on 9 June 1870. Public grief at his death was considerable and he was buried in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.

KRISTIE ALLEN holds a PhD from Rutgers University and has taught Romantic and Victorian literature at Rutgers University and Macalester College. In addition to writing on Charles Dickens, she has published articles on George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and on Victorian melodramas.

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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

First published in Great Britain by Chapman and Hall 1859

First published in the United States of America by T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1859

Originally published in serial form in All the Year Round 1859

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

First published in Great Britain by Chapman and Hall 1861

First published in the United States of America by T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1861

Originally published in serial form in All the Year Round 1860-1861

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Notes on the Texts

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

This edition of A Tale of Two Cities uses the text as it appeared in its first serial publication in Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round in 1859. Only a few emendations have been made.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The present edition has been reprinted from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics, 2003), with an introduction by David Trotter and edited and with notes by Charlotte Mitchell.

The appendix prints the ending of the novel as Dickens originally conceived it.