A Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities, a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. |
Contents
Hundreds of People | |
Monseigneur in Town | |
Monseigneur in the Country | |
The Gorgons Head | |
Two Promises | |
A Companion Picture | |
The Fellow of Delicacy | |
The Fellow of No Delicacy | |
The Wineshop | |
The Shoemaker | |
Book the Secondthe Golden Thread | |
Five Years Later | |
A Sight | |
A Disappointment | |
Congratulatory | |
The Jackal | |
The Honest Tradesman | |
Knitting | |
Still Knitting | |
One Night | |
Nine Days | |
An Opinion | |
A Plea | |
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