A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
Cover: Prise de la Bastille (The Storming of the Bastille) by Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813) · Wikimedia Commons (from Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France) · Public domain
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
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Table of contents
- 1: The Period
- 2: The Mail
- 3: The Night Shadows
- 4: The Preparation
- 5: The Wine-shop
- 6: The Shoemaker
- 7: Five Years Later
- 8: A Sight
- 9: A Disappointment
- 10: Congratulatory
- 11: The Jackal
- 12: Hundreds of People
- 13: Monseigneur in Town
- 14: Monseigneur in the Country
- 15: The Gorgon’s Head
- 16: Two Promises
- 17: A Companion Picture
- 18: The Fellow of Delicacy
- 19: The Fellow of No Delicacy
- 20: The Honest Tradesman
- 21: Knitting
- 22: Still Knitting
- 23: One Night
- 24: Nine Days
- 25: An Opinion
- 26: A Plea
- 27: Echoing Footsteps
- 28: The Sea Still Rises
- 29: Fire Rises
- 30: Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
- 31: In Secret
- 32: The Grindstone
- 33: The Shadow
- 34: Calm in Storm
- 35: The Wood-Sawyer
- 36: Triumph
- 37: A Knock at the Door
- 38: A Hand at Cards
- 39: The Game Made
- 40: The Substance of the Shadow
- 41: Dusk
- 42: Darkness
- 43: Fifty-two
- 44: The Knitting Done
- 45: The Footsteps Die Out For Ever