A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Penguin) - Charles Dickens [0]
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Book the First: 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 the Second: 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 - Monsieur the Marquis in Town
CHAPTER 8 - Monsieur the Marquis 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 the Third: 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
PENGUIN ENRICHED EBOOK FEATURES
Early Reception of A Tale of Two Cities
Psychology in A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens and Melodrama
Dickens and Alcohol
Dickens and Prisons
Illustrations of Eighteenth-Century Fashion and Culture and Dickens’s Victorian World
Further Reading
Filmography for Dickens’s Novels
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
VOLUME I
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
VOLUME II
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
VOLUME III
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
Appendix: - The Ending as Originally Conceived
PENGUIN ENRICHED EBOOK FEATURES
Early Reception of Great Expectations
What Is “Dickensian”?
Gothic Elements in Dickens
Dickens and Victorian Servants
Dickens Sites to Visit in England
Suggested Further Reading: Victorian Fiction
PENGUIN BOOKS
A TALE OF TWO CITIES and GREAT EXPECTATIONS
CHARLES DICKENS was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, the second of eight children. Dickens’s childhood experiences were similar to those depicted in David Copperfield. His father, who was a government clerk, was imprisoned for debt and Dickens was briefly sent to work in a blacking warehouse at the age of twelve. He received little formal education, but taught himself shorthand and became a reporter of parliamentary debates for the Morning Chronicle . He began to publish sketches in various periodicals, which were subsequently republished as Sketches by Boz. The Pickwick Papers was published in 1836-7 and after a slow start became a publishing phenomenon and Dickens’s characters the centre of a popular cult. Part of the secret of his success was the method of cheap serial publication which Dickens used for all his novels. He began Oliver Twist in 1837, followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41). After finishing Barnaby Rudge (1841) Dickens set off for America; he went full of enthusiasm for the young republic but, in spite