A Tale of Two Cities | Overview

Background
Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian Age, a time period spanning roughly from the 1820s to the end of the nineteenth century. While the revolutions in America and France had happened many years earlier, there was still great social tension in England during these times. Work conditions for the poor were horrid, often resulting in strikes that ended in violent clashes between the police and the workers.

A Tale of Two Cities can be seen as a warning to British society of the mid-nineteenth century....


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