A tale of two cities by Charles dickens. Dickens is regarded as the most important novelist of Victorian age and his novel a tale of two cities is regarded as a classic anti war fiction. Drawing heavily upon the war between England and France, this novel shows the collapse of the meta narrative of progress and western civilization. The war mongers are condemned in this novel and the opening lines of the novel have become classic. This novel is a swansong and masterwork of genius. The present book attempts to describe the deeper meaning inherent in the novel and tries to analyse it from various angles. About The Author Subhajit Bhadra is an Asst Professor in the PG Department of English, Bongaigaon College, Bongaigaon, Assam. He is a gold medalist from the Tezpur Central University. Till now he has published various national and international seminar papers in books and anthologies. He is the author of A Panorama of Indian Writing in English, (published by Authors Press), The Rising Sun. (published by Authors Press), The Man Who Stole the Crown, Selected Stories of Arun Goswami, both published by Swastik publication, A History of English Literature (Published by Chandra Prakash ), The Masked Protagonist in Jewish American Fiction. He specializes in American literature, Indian writing in English and postcolonial literature in English. He has also widely published in Sahitya Akademi's bi- monthly journal Indian Literature.