A Tale of Two CitiesThe storming of the Bastille, the trundling death carts with their doomed human cargo, the chillingly merciless guillotine -- this is the frenzied Paris in revolt that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With passionate eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, for when the starving French masses rise to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime, both the guilty and the innocent fall victim to their rage. A masterful portrait of idealism, love and supreme sacrifice in a Paris alive with revolutionary zeal and a London watching with nervous anticipation, Dickens humanizes the story of the French Revolution with four of his greatest characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, the lovely Lucie Manette and her honorable husband Charles Darnay, and the complex, ultimately heroic Sydney Carton. Book jacket. |
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Chapter one The Period | 7 |
Chapter three The Night Shadows | 17 |
Chapter one Five Years Later | 61 |
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