A Tale of Two Cities (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Charles Dickens [0]
FROM THE PAGES OF A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Title Page
Copyright Page
CHARLES DICKENS
THE WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS ANDA TALE OF TWO CITIES
Introduction
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
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 - Monseigneur in Town
CHAPTER 8 - Monseigneur in the Country
CHAPTER 9 - The 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
ENDNOTES
INSPIRED BY A TALE OF TWO CITIES
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
FOR FURTHER READING
FROM THE PAGES OF A TALE OF TWO CITIES
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (page 7)
Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. (page 16)
There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. (page 35)
Death is Nature’s remedy for all things, and why not Legislation’s?
(page 56)
Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. (page 88)
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur. In the outermost room were half a dozen exceptional people who had had, for a few years, some vague misgiving in them that things in general were going rather wrong. As a promising way of setting them right, half of the half-dozen had become members of a fantastic sect of Convulsionists, and were even then considering within themselves whether they should foam, rage, roar, and turn cataleptic on the spot. (page 108)
The transition to the sport of window-breaking, and thence to the plundering of public-houses, was easy and natural. (page 157)
“Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.”
(page 177)
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A Tale of Two Cities was published both serially and in volume form in 1859.
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