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Content: Charles Dickens', "A Tale of Two Cities"On this segment of HarperAudio!,
James Mason reads Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities." The two cities
are London and Paris just before the French Revolution. Dickens used the
traditional Victorian novel as a medium for social protest, describing the
oppression of the lower classes and the justifiable unrest that led to the
excesses of the French Revolution.Dickens, a product of the working classes himself, empathized with the
oppressed workers and children of his day. All of his novels are social
commentaries, and "A Tale of Two Cities" describes the tribulations suffered
by the French lower classes under the reign of Louis XVI. Dickens makes the
French Revolution seem inevitable, and paints sympathetic pictures of those
who plotted it. The precipitating event of the Revolution occurred on July
14, 1789, when a mob stormed the hated Bastille prison and liberated the
political prisoners it contained.This novel, first published in 1859, is set during the French Revolution
and includes some of the authors' best-known characters. Madame Defarge,
wife of a wine-shop keeper, hates the aristocracy. She knits constantly,
encoding the names of aristocrats and enemies of the revolution into her
work. Dickens takes this detail from Thomas Carlyle's book on the French
Revolution, which described women knitting as they watched the guillotine
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