[Humour] Joke du Jour

[Winker]

A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in two local papers:

The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times

 

[Dick Swiveller]

A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in two local papers:

The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times

That is a coincidence. If Worcester was pronounced Worseter, it would sound a bit like the first line of the book.

 

[PTC Gull]

Reminds me of this…..

 

[schmunk]

A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in two local papers:

The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times

It should have been called A Tale of One City and One Town, then.

 

[Is it PotG?]

An complete book by one of the most famous authors around, published in its entirety in 2 local rags?

Doubt it sunshine.

 

[Bry Nylon]

A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in two local papers:

The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times

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.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

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.

 

[essbee1]

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.

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.

 

[AK74]

FACT CHECK: Bicester's newspaper is The Advertiser.

 

[US Seagull]

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.

That's silly. It was obviously serialized like most of Dicken's work before later being published as a complete novel.

 

[US Seagull]

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.

Oh. Bad news:

The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. From April to November 1859

 

[Bodian]

A Tale of Two Cities was originally published in two local papers:

The Bicester Times and the Worcester Times

An complete book by one of the most famous authors around, published in its entirety in 2 local rags?

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.

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]

That's silly. It was obviously serialized like most of Dicken's work before later being published as a complete novel.

Compleat, surely.

 

[lawros left foot]

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.

Probably still smaller than the Sunday Times.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Was nicked from a Watts Phillips play called The Dead Heart wasn't it?

 

[lawros left foot]

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.

Exactly 100 years before I was born, to the day.

 

[schmunk]

Exactly 100 years before I was born, to the day.

And just remind us, what was your mother's maiden name, again...?

 

[lawros left foot]

And just remind us, what was your mother's maiden name, again...?

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

 

[Brovion]

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.

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.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

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.

And I know for a fact that you didn’t learn that by paying attention to English Literature lessons at school!