How about Hermann Wouk’s Winds of War?

I’m currently reading A Tale of Two Cities. So far, so good.

I haven’t read much of his work – only the one I’m reading and A Christmas Carol, which is almost like a short story. From the notes in the book, though, it appears that he does include certain themes in more than one novel.

I find historic British literature to be interesting, and so I've been reading that for a number of months now. Perhaps some time I will move on to Russian literature, but it seems like there are an awful lot of British novels to get through first.