Over the years, many authors have strived to highlight various historical events through their respective publications. However, only a few can match Charles Dickens’s writing skills and his ability to use the aspect of duality as he compares the socio-economic and political differences between France and England in the mid-1780s. Authored in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities follows the life of Doctor Manette, a French national, as an inmate in Paris, and how everything changes when he is finally released and relocates to London, England to live with his estranged daughter. A Tale of Two Cities is a story that shows the political chaos experienced by France during the French Revolution and the stability and calmness enjoyed by England around the same time. The French Revolution was an influential period characterized by an array of social and political unrest in France. The author uses different characters to show the differences between the two nations during a time when France's sociopolitical landscape was getting reshaped, by uprooting ancient institutions, for instance, feudal systems and absolute monarchy and replacing it with the will of the people. England, on the other hand, is depicted as a stable land that continues to thrive socially, politically, and even economically. The author successfully incorporates the elements of fact and fiction to produce a book that tells the story of two great