This six-page undergraduate paper analyzes the classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by the Victorian Era English novelist Charles Dickens. The author notes that A Tale of Two Cities is quintessential Dickens, for it features timeless drama in the form of courtroom confrontations, mysterious events, romantic and familial love, intriguing espionage, high adventure, engaging humor, and profound tragedy. Dickens was a master at portraying every aspect of the human condition, and A Tale of Two Cities is primarily a story of love, revenge and self-sacrifice on a personal level rather than an epic treatise on the French Revolution.