Winker
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A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in two local papers:
The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times
The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times
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Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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That is a coincidence. If Worcester was pronounced Worseter, it would sound a bit like the first line of the book.
schmunk
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It should have been called A Tale of One City and One Town, then.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
An complete book by one of the most famous authors around, published in its entirety in 2 local rags?
Doubt it sunshine.
Doubt it sunshine.
Oh. That's disappointing. I have what I'd always believed to be a first edition, published by Chapman & Hall and recently valued at a little over £5,000.
Given that obviously isn't the case, I'll drop it off at Sue Ryder next time I'm in town.
I feel sorry for the newspaper delivery person as that must have made the size of the papers really thick and probably unfeasible to fit through any letter boxes.
Do you know which Sue Ryder branch you'll be donating it to please? And a rough time you'll be dropping it off. Asking for a friend.
US Seagull
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That's silly. It was obviously serialized like most of Dicken's work before later being published as a complete novel.
US Seagull
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It was indeed first published in a paper rather than a book. It was first published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. The first weekly instalment of A Tale of Two Cities ran in the first issue of All the Year Round on 30 April 1859. The last ran 30 weeks later, on 26 November, on which date it was then also published as a book (bry nylon's first edition presumably).
Dickens also republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers.
schmunk
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Compleat, surely.
Probably still smaller than the Sunday Times.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Was nicked from a Watts Phillips play called The Dead Heart wasn't it?
Exactly 100 years before I was born, to the day.
schmunk
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And just remind us, what was your mother's maiden name, again...?
Absolutely. And given that Dickens was a well-established writer at that stage it's almost inconceivable that he would serialise his work in two provincial newspapers.
I think the OP has been misled.
And I know for a fact that you didn’t learn that by paying attention to English Literature lessons at school!
