A Tale of Two Cities is the best selling novel of all time His creative genius has been praised by fellow writers from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G K Chesterton for its realism comedy prose style unique characterisations and social criticism On the other hand Oscar Wilde Henry James and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth loose writing and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism The term Dickensian is used to describe som...