A tale of two cities book cover6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is very much a tale of good versus evil, with Dickens essentially realizing in fiction the historian Thomas Carlyle’s now-discredited interpretation of the French Revolution as a struggle between oppressed poor and monstrous aristocrats. The moralism so typical of Dickens is much in evidence, however, as the author stages his story in the most violent period of the revolution, the Reign of Terror (1792-1794). Unusual among his novels, A Tale of Two Cities relies heavily on plot rather than characterization. Dickens tells the story of a wide range of characters in London and Paris whose lives intersect in the turbulence of the revolution. ![]() ![]() Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century Victorian Romanticism. ![]()
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