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My dear Miss Baskin,

  Your question calls for a twofold answer.  To begin with, perhaps you
should ask yourself what it is that makes a good story.  There has to be a
problem, does there not?  And it has to be solved, or at least resolved.
There are many kinds of problem a novelist can use for stories.  Deceit and
mayhem are among the most popular, yielding as they do problems requiring
ingenuity, honesty and courage for their solution.
  The second answer has to do with the setting I chose.  The time of the
French Revolution was a time of deceit and mayhem.  I wished my readers to
consider the French Revolution - I wished them to contemplate the
possibility of such a revolution in our own land.  It was necessary they
should consider the deceit and mayhem.


Faithfully yours,


Charles Dickens
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>Why did the book A Tale of Two Cities have so much deceit and mayhem?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Mondrekia Baskin
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>

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