Authors: Charles Dickens
ISBN-13: 9780618031504, ISBN-10: 0618031502
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: New Edition
Charles Dickens is probably the greatest novelist England ever produced. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life -- along with his memorable characters -- have made him beloved by readers the world over. In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikely) heroes.
A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years without trial by the aristocratic authorities. Finally released, he is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, who despite her French ancestry has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay, another expatriate, who has abandoned wealth and a title in France because of his political convictions. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant, but there he is arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations. His wife, Lucie, their young daughter, and her aged father follow him across the Channel, thus putting all their lives in danger.
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Insights into Charles Dickens | ||
Book 1 | Recalled to Life | |
Chapter 1 | The Period | 16 |
Chapter 2 | The Mail | 20 |
Chapter 3 | The Night Shadows (Summary) | 27 |
Chapter 4 | The Preparation | 28 |
Chapter 5 | The Wine-Shop | 41 |
Chapter 6 | The Shoemaker | 53 |
Book 2 | The Golden Thread | |
Chapter 1 | Five Years Later (Summary) | 67 |
Chapter 2 | A Sight | 69 |
Chapter 3 | A Disappointment | 77 |
Chapter 4 | Congratulatory (Summary) | 92 |
Chapter 5 | The Jackal | 94 |
Chapter 6 | Hundreds of People (Summary) | 101 |
Chapter 7 | Monseigneur in Town (Summary) | 103 |
Chapter 8 | Monseigneur in the Country (Summary) | 104 |
Chapter 9 | The Gorgon's Head | 105 |
Chapter 10 | Two Promises | 119 |
Chapter 11 | A Companion Picture (Summary) | 127 |
Chapter 12 | The Fellow of Delicacy (Summary) | 128 |
Chapter 13 | The Fellow of No Delicacy | 129 |
Chapter 14 | The Honest Tradesman | 134 |
Chapter 15 | Knitting | 145 |
Chapter 16 | Still Knitting | 157 |
Chapter 17 | One Night (Summary) | 169 |
Chapter 18 | Nine Days | 170 |
Chapter 19 | An Opinion | 177 |
Chapter 20 | A Plea (Summary) | 185 |
Chapter 21 | Echoing Footsteps | 186 |
Chapter 22 | The Sea Still Rises | 199 |
Chapter 23 | Fire Rises (Summary) | 205 |
Chapter 24 | Drawn to the Loadstone Rock | 207 |
Book 3 | The Track of A Storm | |
Chapter 1 | In Secret | 221 |
Chapter 2 | The Grindstone (Summary) | 234 |
Chapter 3 | The Shadow | 236 |
Chapter 4 | Calm in Storm (Summary) | 242 |
Chapter 5 | The Wood-Sawyer (Summary) | 244 |
Chapter 6 | Triumph | 246 |
Chapter 7 | A Knock at the Door (Summary) | 254 |
Chapter 8 | A Hand at Cards | 255 |
Chapter 9 | The Game Made | 268 |
Chapter 10 | The Substance of the Shadow | 283 |
Chapter 11 | Dusk (Summary) | 298 |
Chapter 12 | Darkness | 299 |
Chapter 13 | Fifty-Two | 308 |
Chapter 14 | The Knitting Done | 321 |
Chapter 15 | The Footsteps Die Out Forever | 334 |