A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 416
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171674070

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First published in 1859, in Dicken's mature period of writing, this classic remains one of the greatest novels on the French Revolution. The two cities are Paris and London and the scene shifts from one to the other.

First published in 1859, in Dickens's mature period of writing, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ remains one of the greatest novels on the French Revolution. The two cities are Paris and London and the scene shifts from one to the other in a story of brutality, repression, hatred, and revenge on the one hand and idealism, love, and self-sacrifice on the other.

The Marquis de St Evremonde and his brother cruelly molest a peasant girl and mortally wound her brother Dr. Manette, who is called to treat them but is then confined in the Bastille for eighteen years to suppress his evidence. The fall of the dreaded prison secures his release, but he is ill and driven crazy. He is brought to England to convalesce, and slowly recovers his sanity. Darnay, a nephew of the Marquis, who has renounced his family for their cruel practices, is now in England and falls in love with and marries Lucie, the doctor’s daughter.

He makes a trip to Paris to rescue an old family retainer, but is recognized, arrested, and sentences to death. He is only saved by an act of reckless self-sacrifice by Sydney Carton, an English barrister come to no good, who loves Lucie, and substitutes himself in the place of Darnay who is smuggled out of the country. Carton dies a courageous and peaceful death.

Contents

Charles Dickens
Introduction
Authors Preface

BOOK ONE
RECALLED TO LIFE

CHAPTER 1
The Period

CHAPTER 2
The Mail

CHAPTER 3
The Night Shadows

CHAPTER 4
The Preparation

CHAPTER 5
The Wine-shop

CHAPTER 6
The Shoemaker

BOOK TWO
THE GOLDEN THREAD

CHAPTER 1
Five Years Later

CHAPTER 2
A Sight

CHAPTER 3
A Disappointment

CHAPTER 4
Congratulatory

CHAPTER 5
The Jackal

CHAPTER 6
Hundreds of People

CHAPTER 7
Monseigneur in Town

CHAPTER 8
Monseigneur in the Country

CHAPTER 9
The Gorgon’s Head

CHAPTER 10
Two Promises

CHAPTER 11
A Companion Picture

CHAPTER 12
The Fellow of Delicacy

CHAPTER 13
The Fellow of No Delicacy

CHAPTER 14
The Honest Tradesman

CHAPTER 15
Knitting

CHAPTER 16
Still Knitting

CHAPTER 17
One Night

CHAPTER 18
Nine Days

CHAPTER 19
An Opinion

CHAPTER 20
A Plea

CHAPTER 21
Echoing Footsteps

CHAPTER 22
The Sea Still Rises

CHAPTER 23
Fire Rises

CHAPTER 24
Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

BOOK THREE
THE TRACK OF A STORM

CHAPTER 1
In Secret

CHAPTER 2
The Grindstone

CHAPTER 3
The Shadow

CHAPTER 4
Calm in Storm

CHAPTER 5
The Wood-Sawyer

CHAPTER 6
Triumph

CHAPTER 7
A Knock at the Door

CHAPTER 8
A Hand at Cards

CHAPTER 9
The Game Made

CHAPTER 10
The Substance of the Shadow

CHAPTER 11
Dusk

CHAPTER 12
Darkness

CHAPTER 13
Fifty-two

CHAPTER 14
The Knitting Done

CHAPTER 15
The Footsteps Die Out for Ever

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