GEORGE NEWLIN is an independent scholar who manages to combine his background in the legal profession with his passion for the arts and literature. He is the author of "Understanding A Tale of Two Cities" (1998) for the Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" series. He is the compiler and editor of the three-volume "Everyone in Dickens" (Greenwood, 1995), and "Everything in Dickens" (Greenwood, 1996).