A Tale of Two Cities - Spotlight EditionPrestwick House is proud to offer our Spotlight Editions? ? thoughtful, intelligent adaptations of some of the world's greatest literature. Each Spotlight -Edition? maintains the rich integrity of the original work while adapting the language to be more accessible to the average high school student.In addition to providing a more readable text, Prestwick House Spotlight Editions? are enhanced, providing your students with? thoughtful guided reading questions and margin notes to help students -navigate the text;? suggestions for thought and discussion;? research opportunities for richer understanding of the text and its contexts;? suggested writing activities to foster deeper thinking. |
Contents
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Five Years Later | 61 |
A Sight | 67 |
Nine Days | 223 |
An Opinion | 231 |
A Plea | 239 |
Echoing Footsteps | 245 |
The Sea Still Rises | 259 |
Fire Rises | 265 |
Drawn to the Loadstone Rock | 273 |
In Secret | 287 |
A Disappointment | 75 |
Congratulatory | 89 |
The Jackal | 97 |
Hundreds of People | 105 |
Monseigneur in Town | 117 |
Monseigneur in the Country | 127 |
The Gorgons Head | 135 |
Two Promises | 147 |
A Companion Picture | 157 |
The Fellow of Delicacy | 163 |
The Fellow of No Delicacy | 171 |
The Honest Tradesman | 177 |
Knitting | 189 |
Still Knitting | 203 |
One Night | 217 |
The Sharpening Stone | 301 |
The Shadow | 309 |
Calm in Storm | 315 |
The Woodcutter | 323 |
Triumph | 331 |
A Knock at the Door | 339 |
A Hand at Cards | 347 |
The Game Made | 361 |
The Substance of the Shadow | 377 |
Dusk | 395 |
Darkness | 401 |
FiftyTwo | 411 |
The Knitting Done | 425 |
The Footsteps Die Out Forever | 439 |
Common terms and phrases
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