The story A Tale of Two Cities (1859) describes Paris and London in times of French Revolution. This book is one of the most well-known and popular in the world. Readers bought about 20 million copies of the bestseller. In this remarkable work of fiction Dickens describes miserable life of the French peasantry and how the situation was developing during the years before Revolution, how cruel and violent to aristocrats poor people became when the Revolution had started. The author is really detailed talking about Paris and at the same time Dickens gives picturesque parallels with life in London which was totally different. Dickens focuses on the lifelines of two men – a French aristocrat Charles Darnay and an English lawyer Sydney Carton. Furthermore, there is a love triangle, including Mr. Darnay, his wife Lucie Manette and Mr. Carton.
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