It deals in parallel with the realities of England and a revolutionary France.Taking the French revolution as a point of reference, Dickens shows the social and political problems of England, fearing that history would repeat itself in his native country when he wrote this novel.In the contrast of these two cities presented, England is presented as confidence, tranquility, the future assured, while France becomes more and more dangerous as the novel progresses. The acts of violence carried out by the French people are among the most memorable scenes in the book. Dickens rejects revolutionary violence in its two forms, both in its popular form, by the masses, and in its institutionalized form, such as terror.Dickens wrote a book about two cities, one he understood and knew and the other he neither understood nor knew. His description of the one he did not know is almost better than the one he did know.Critics argue that Dickens based his novel on Carlyle's work on the French Revolution, but it could be said that A Tale of Two Cities is Carlyle's historical book novel, that is, it is history but with added sentiment, it is the narrative that traps and immerses you in the revolutionary events of France in the 18th century.Why buy this book?Because this book is a great gift for the reader to focus on the time of the French revolution, seen with the eyes of one of the greatest novelists in history.Without a doubt, in addition to being a great novel, it is a magnificent history book of the time, with a level of realism that places us in time and space.
