Understanding a tale of two cities
A Tale of Two Cities, does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bloody events in history, the French Revolution.
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Introduction A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities Before the Deluge The Events of the French Revolution Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution Dickens and Carlyle: Common Threads The Mob in Two Cities, and the "Terror" Voices from the Prisons of Paris in the Terror Revolution: When, What and How Due Process of Law: The Rights of Man Capital Punishment Prison Isolation and Its Consequences Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man" Glossary Index