"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is a masterpiece. The story is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.More than two hundred million copies of the book have been sold up to the present. It is considered to be one of the most famous works in the history of English literature.The story describes the miserable condition of the French peasants. The French aristocracy had demoralized the peasantry in the years before the French revolution. The story reveals how the oppressed farmers reacted brutally against the aristocrats in the early years of the revolution.