Charles DickensbrFull name Charles John Huffam Dickens.br1812 1870 brA famous English writer and social critic. brbrCharles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and by the 20th century critics had recognised him as a literary genius.brbrA Tale of Two Cities 1859 is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.