TALE OF TWO CITIES - A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . . .As its title promises, this brief chapter establishes the era in which the novel takes place: England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes-"e,It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"e,-but resembles the "e,present period"e, in which Dickens writes. In England, the public worries over religious prophecies, popular ...