"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiet to bestow, O Guillotine!" Charles Dickens vividly captures the French Revolution in his famous work, A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, Dickens brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime, only to produce a reign of terror.