Ready Reference Treatise: A Tale of Two Cities

By Raja Sharma

“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens is a masterpiece. The story is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

More than two hundred million copies of the book have been sold up to the present. It is considered to be one of the most famous works in the history of English literature.

The story describes the miserable condition of the French peasants. The French aristocracy had demoralized the peasantry in the years before the French revolution. The story reveals how the oppressed farmers reacted brutally against the aristocrats in the early years of the revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jan 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301539789

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: A Tale of Two Cities

Raja Sharma

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Preface

Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

I would strongly advise all students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

All the best

Raja Sharma

Chapter One: Introduction to A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a masterpiece. The story