A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities begins in London and Paris and presents the most remarkable saga of love, chaos, duality and uprising all through the French Revolution. It was the best of times, the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness. In 1775 Lucie Manette, a young orphan realised that she had been living a fake life. Her father whom she had taken for dead was, in fact, alive. Charles Darnay, the self-exiled nephew of the Marquis Evremonde was accused of sedition. Madame Defarge, a victim of the French nobility made a registry of those condemned to die and Sydney Carton, an alcoholic English lawyer in love with Lucie. They were all fighting the social issues that had besieged France and England. A Tale of Two Cities is a masterpiece which captures the reader's attention towards its haunting narrative of the French Revolution. Charles Dickens presents a picture of sacrifice and redemption through this fiction and believes firmly in the virtues of renaissance and transformation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Chapter 00 - PUBLISHER’S NOTE
• Chapter 01 - BOOK THE FIRST: RECALLED TO LIFE - Chapter I THE PERIOD
• Chapter II THE MAIL
• Chapter III THE NIGHT SHADOWS
• Chapter IV THE PREPARATION
• Chapter V THE WINESHOP
• Chapter VI THE SHOEMAKER
• Chapter 07 - BOOK THE SECOND: THE GOLDEN THREAD - Chapter I FIVE YEARS LATER
• Chapter II A SIGHT
• Chapter III A DISAPPOINTMENT
• Chapter IV CONGRATULATORY
• Chapter V THE JACKAL
• Chapter VI HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
• Chapter VII MONSEIGNEUR IN TOWN
• Chapter VIII MONSEIGNEUR IN THE COUNTRY
• Chapter IX THE GORGON’S HEAD
• Chapter X TWO PROMISES
• Chapter XI A COMPANION PICTURE
• Chapter XII THE FELLOW OF DELICACY
• Chapter XIII THE FELLOW OF NO DELICACY
• Chapter XIV THE HONEST TRADESMAN
• Chapter XV KNITTING
• Chapter XVI STILL KNITTING
• Chapter XVII ONE NIGHT
• Chapter XVIII NINE DAYS
• Chapter XIX AN OPINION
• Chapter XX A PLEA
• Chapter XXI ECHOING FOOTSTEPS
• Chapter XXII THE SEA STILL RISES
• Chapter XXIII FIRE RISES
• Chapter XXIV DRAWN TO THE LOADSTONE ROCK
• Chapter 31 - BOOK THE THIRD: THE TRACK OF A STORM - Chapter I IN SECRET
• Chapter II THE GRINDSTONE
• Chapter III THE SHADOW
• Chapter IV CALM IN STORM
• Chapter V THE WOOD-SAWYER
• Chapter VI TRIUMPH
• Chapter VII A KNOCK AT THE DOOR
• Chapter VIII A HAND AT CARDS
• Chapter IX THE GAME MADE
• Chapter X THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SHADOW
• Chapter XI DUSK
• Chapter XII DARKNESS
• Chapter XIII FIFTY-TWO
• Chapter XIV THE KNITTING DONE
• Chapter XV THE FOOTSTEPS DIE OUT FOR EVER