A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens | A Level Student Guide | Coleman’s Notes CN-SG048
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
Enter the worlds of London and revolutionary Paris with this comprehensive Coleman’s Notes® Student Guide to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.
Dickens combines the drama of the French Revolution with an intensely personal story of family, imprisonment, memory, love, revenge and sacrifice.
From Dr Manette’s release after eighteen years in the Bastille to Sydney Carton’s extraordinary final act, this guide follows the complete novel through all 45 chapters, helping students understand both the unfolding story and the ideas and literary techniques that give it its power.
Explore the contrasting characters of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette’s role as the novel’s “golden thread”, Dr Manette’s continuing struggle with trauma, and Madame Defarge’s transformation from a victim of aristocratic injustice into an uncompromising agent of vengeance.
The guide examines Dickens’s use of doubling, foreshadowing, symbolism, recurring imagery, parallel settings, crowd imagery and historical contrast, together with the significance of the Bastille, the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror and the social inequalities that precede them.
For revision and essay preparation, students also receive five detailed essay plans, five model answers, practice examination questions, 25 Exam & Revision Questions, common mistakes and improvements, a revision checklist and Quick Recall section.
Written at A Level English Literature standard, it is ideal for students, tutors, teachers, home educators and serious independent readers.
CN-SG048 | Digital Student Guide | £6.95
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