ƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒnƒn A Tale of two Cities In the fictitious novel Tale of Two Cities, the author,
Charles Dickens lays out a brilliant plot. Charles Dickens was born in England
on February 7, 1812 nears the south coast. His family moved to London when
he was ten years old and quickly went into debt. To help support him, Charles
went to work at a blacking warehouse when he was twelve. His father was
soon imprisoned for debt and shortly thereafter the rest of the family split apart.
Charles continued to work at the blacking warehouse even after his father
inherited some money and got out of prison. When he was thirteen, Dickens
went back to school for two years. He later learned shorthand and became a
freelance court reporter. He started out as a journalist at the age of twenty and
later wrote his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He went on to write many
other novels, including Tale of Two Cities in 1859. Tale of Two Cities takes
place in France and England during the troubled times of the French
Revolution. There are travels by the characters between the countries, but
most of the action takes place in Paris, France. The wineshop in Paris is the
hot spot for the French revolutionists, mostly because the wineshop owner,
Ernest Defarge, and his wife, Madame Defarge, are key leaders and officials
of the revolution. Action in the book is scattered out in many places; such as
the Bastille, Tellson's Bank, the home of the Manettes, and largely, the streets
of Paris. These places help to introduce many characters into the ...