A Tale of Two Cities
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A Tale of Two Cities

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A Tale of Two Cities

About this book

Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " and for Carton's last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

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Information

Publisher
Youcanprint
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9788827849972
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Book the Firstā€”Recalled to Life
  2. I. The Period
  3. II. The Mail
  4. III. The Night Shadows
  5. IV. The Preparation
  6. V. The Wine-shop
  7. VI. The Shoemaker
  8. Book the Secondā€”the Golden Thread
  9. I. Five Years Later
  10. II. A Sight
  11. III. A Disappointment
  12. IV. Congratulatory
  13. V. The Jackal
  14. VI. Hundreds of People
  15. VII. Monseigneur in Town
  16. VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
  17. IX. The Gorgonā€™s Head
  18. X. Two Promises
  19. XI. A Companion Picture
  20. XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
  21. XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
  22. XIV. The Honest Tradesman
  23. XV. Knitting
  24. XVI. Still Knitting
  25. XVII. One Night
  26. XVIII. Nine Days
  27. XIX. An Opinion
  28. XX. A Plea
  29. XXI. Echoing Footsteps
  30. XXII. The Sea Still Rises
  31. XXIII. Fire Rises
  32. XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
  33. Book the Thirdā€”the Track of a Storm
  34. I. In Secret
  35. II. The Grindstone
  36. III. The Shadow
  37. IV. Calm in Storm
  38. V. The Wood-Sawyer
  39. VI. Triumph
  40. VII. A Knock at the Door
  41. VIII. A Hand at Cards
  42. IX. The Game Made
  43. X. The Substance of the Shadow
  44. XI. Dusk
  45. XII. Darkness
  46. XIII. Fifty-two
  47. XIV. The Knitting Done
  48. XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever