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A Tale of Two cities:

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution.
The novel depicts the sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris.

Chief Characters:
- Doctor Alexandre Manette,
- Lucie Manette,
- Charles Darnay,
- Sydney Carton,
- Mr. Jarvis Lorry,
- Jerry Cruncher,
- Ernest Defarge,
- Mr. Lorry
- Ernest Defarge: The owner of a wine-shop in a Paris suburb. Defarge is a leader of the Jacquerie (a roving band of peasants) during the French Revolution.

Charles Dickens: 
- He was born in 1812 and died in 1870.
- Charles Dickens is considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era.
- His Father was a Clerk. 
- Charles Dickens worked as a journalist, writing numerous items on political and social affairs.

Best Works: 

• A Christmas Carol
• A Tale of Two Cities
• All the Year Round
• American Notes
• Barnaby Rudge 
• Bleak House 
• David Copperfield
• Dombey and Son
• Great Expectations 
• Hard Times
• Little Dorrit
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Nicholas Nickleby 
• Oliver Twist 
• Our Mutual Friend
• Sketches by ‘Boz’  
• The Cricket on the Hearth 
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• The Old Curiosity Shop 
• The Pickwick

Source: Live MCQ lecture and Encyclopedia Britannica.

Sentimental Education:
- Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert. Considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century. 
- The novel describes the life of a young man (Frédéric Moreau) living through the revolution of -1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman.

Gustave Flaubert: (1821-1880):
One of the great French novelists, regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece novels. 

Best Works: 
- A Sentimental Education
- Bouvard and Pécuchet” 
- Madame Bovary 
- Mémoires d’un fou 
- Salammbô
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony 
- Three Tales

Source: Britannica.com

New Arabian Nights:
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories. 

Robert Louis Stevenson:
Robert Louis Stevenson: (1850-1894) Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his works Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Best Works:
- A Child’s Garden of Verses
- A Footnote to History
- Across the Plains
- Catriona
- In the South Seas
- Kidnapped
- Prince Otto
- The Amateur Emigrant
- The Beach of Falesa
- The Black Arrow
- A Tale of the Two Roses
- The Ebb-Tide
- The Master of Ballantrae
- The Pentland Rising
- The Silverado Squatters
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- Treasure Island
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Weir of Hermiston

Source: Britannica.com

Through the Looking Glass: This is a novel written by Lewis Carroll. 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are identical and legendary literary masterpieces by Mark Twain. 

Mark Twain (1835-1910): 
His actual name was: Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was an American humorist, novelist, and travel writer. Twain is widely considered one of the greatest American writers of all time. He is also famous for his amazing travel narratives. 

Best Works: 
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (1876) 
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) he is best remembered as the author of this signatory novel. 
- Life on the Mississippi
- The Innocents Abroad
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- A Tramp Abroad
- Following the Equator
- Letters from the Earth 
- Old Times on the Mississippi
- Pudd’nhead Wilson
- Roughing It 
-The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches
- The Gilded Age
- The Innocents Abroad
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- The Prince and the Pauper 

Source: Britannica.com

John Stuart Mill:
- He was born on May 20, 1806 in London in England. 
- He was a renowned English Philosopher and political economist. He was the leading expositor of utilitarianism.

Utilitarianism: It is an ethical principle according to which an action is right if it tends to maximize happiness, not only that of the agent but also of everyone affected. 

Notable Works:

• Essay on Economics and society (Article, 1967)
• Utilitarianism (1863)
• The Subjection of Women. (1869)
• On Liberty (1859) 

Source: Britannica.com

History of England: (Written in 1849-61)

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the 05 Volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England. 

It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death.

Source: Britannica.com 

The return of the Native: The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel.
It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism.

Main Characters: 
- Clement (Clym) Yeobright
- Eustacia Vye
- Mrs. Yeobrigh
- Thomasin (Tamsin) Yeobright
- Diggory Venn
- Captain Drew

Thomas Hardy: ((1840-1928)
He was basically a regional novelist and a poet. He is regarded as the pessimistic Novelist. He wrote novels in Vicotrian age, and Short stories in the Modern period. 

Best Works: 

• The return of the native. 
• The Mayor of Casterbridge 
• Tess of D'Urbervilles
• The Trumpet Major. 
• A pair of blue eyes.
• Under the greenwood tree. 

Source: Britannica.com