A Tale of Two Cities (Wisehouse Classics - with original Illustrations by Phiz). Чарльз Диккенс

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       A Tale of Two Cities

       A Tale of Two Cities

       by

      Charles Dickens

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       Wisehouse Classics

      Charles Dickens

       A Tale of Two Cities

       Illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ( “Phiz”), 1859

       Cover: Scene from the French Revolution ” by Walter William Ouless

       Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi

      Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden

      ISBN 978-91-7637-137-4

      Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.

      © Wisehouse 2016 – Sweden

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       Contents

Book the First—Recalled to Life

1. The Period

2. The Mail

3. The Night Shadows

4. The Preparation

5. The Wine-shop

6. The Shoemaker

Book the Second—the Golden Thread

1. Five Years Later

2. A Sight

3. A Disappointment

4. Congratulatory

5. The Jackal

6. Hundreds of People

       7. Monseigneur in Town

       8. Monseigneur in the Country

       9. The Gorgon’s Head

       10. Two Promises

       11. A Companion Picture

       12. The Fellow of Delicacy

       13. The Fellow of No Delicacy

       14. The Honest Tradesman

       15. Knitting

       16. Still Knitting

       17. One Night

       18. Nine Days

       19. An Opinion

       20. A Plea

       21. Echoing Footsteps

       22. The Sea Still Rises

       23. Fire Rises

       24. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

       Book the Third—the Track of a Storm

       1. In Secret

       2. The Grindstone

       3. The Shadow

       4. Calm in Storm

       5. The Wood–Sawyer

       6. Triumph

       7. A Knock at the Door

       8. A Hand at Cards

       9. The Game Made

       10. The Substance of the Shadow

       11. Dusk

       12. Darkness

       13. Fifty-two

       14. The Knitting Done

       15. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

Book the First—Recalled to Life

1. THE PERIOD

      IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE AGE OF wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

      There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

      It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come