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Charles Dickens’ and his works are products of what’s referred to as the Victorian Era. Quite literally the time period lasting through the rain of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), it is often characterized by the height of the British Industrial Revolution. Authors of the period, Dickens’ in particular, discussed through there works social inequality and a sense of disgust with the shortcomings of class division. Dickens’, A Tale of Two Cities was no exception.

The idea for a Tale of Two Cities was derived from play in which Dickens’ himself was the heroin. The preface of the novel, as he describes, details the production of Wilkie Collins entitled The Frozen Deep. The play describes two men very much in love with the same woman. Ultimately one man, played by Dickens’, trades his life in effort to save his rivals. On a basic level, this is essentially the same story Dickens’ tells in A Tale of Two Cities.

Dickens’ novel, was published initially in series form in......

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