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Likewise for a classic like the Penguin paperback of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities , which any Borders or Barnes & Noble will have on hand.
This is the other extreme from those Dickens or Hardy novels in which someone's fate depends on his or her character; here, who lives or dies is a matter of a chance half-second or a random glance.
And where a literal-minded parodist might have bound the narrative to Dickens and his doings, Carey gives the novel and its themes a full life outside them.
In broad outline, it echoes Great Expectations , Dickens' story of Pip the waif who is befriended by Magwitch the convict, though Carey's book is also partly a reflection on how Dickens' novel came to be written.
From the days of the heroic Sir Philip (d. 1586) Sydney (d. 1586), this has been a popular name, transcending class barriers: Dickens' Sidney Carton; the comic actor, Sid James; Sid of the huge government advertising campaign when privatizing British Gas.