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Did anyone know that why charles dickens wrote the story 'a tale of two cities'?
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"The ideas for A Tale of Two Cities came to Dickens in small doses over twenty years. When Thomas Carlyle's book The French Revolution was published in 1837, Dickens read it eagerly. He was so moved by Carlyle's descriptions of the time that he wanted to set a novel in the fiery Revolutionary period. Some of the characters and plots came directly from other stories that he wrote in those years. While he worked on the short story The Battle of Life in 1846, a Christmas story about self-sacrifice, he thought about writing the story of an imprisoned man and his mental state. This same story featured a one sister sacrificing her love for her sister's sake. The largest motivation came in his friendship with the writer Wilkie Collins. Collins and Dickens collaborated in stories about heroic and dedicated friendships." Read more at ClassicNotes
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