France and England in A Tale of Two Cities - The French Revolution Introduction In the eighteen-fifties, Charles Dickens was concerned that social problems in England, particularly those relating to the condition of the poor, might provoke a mass reaction on the scale of the French Revolution. In a letter written in 1855, for example, he refers to the unrest of the time as follows: I believe the discontent to be so much the worse for …showed first 75 words of 2795 total…

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