Book Description
Painting a picture through plots, rather than developing characters through dialogue, Charles Dickens took a turn away from his typical style with A Tale of Two Cities. CliffNotes on A Tale of Two Cities takes you deep into this prime piece of English literature with plot summaries, characters analyses, glossaries, and background about Dickens' motivation for writing a richly detailed account of the best of times and the worst of times. Polish your knowledge of England and France in the late eighteenth century as you take a shine to a story told about economic distress, social unrest, and emerging rights of people – revolutionary ideas for any age!


From the Back Cover
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About the Author
Kris Marie Kalil received her M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializing in nineteenth-century British and American literature. She has taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Iowa Western Community College.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This is one of Dickens's parable stories centered on the fortunes of a family during the French Revolution as society is crumbling. This novel places society's regeneration in friendship, the family, and heroic self-sacrifice, each of which is based on love.