A Tale of Two Cities双城记
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作者： Charles Dickens 著
出 版 社： 进E
出版时间： 1989-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 400印刷时间：开本： 48开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780553211764包装： 平装内容简介
The timeless classic of love and sacrifice during the French Revolution! With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his tale with such memorable characters as the evil Madame Defarge and her knitted patterns of death, the gentle Lucie Manette and her unfailing devotion to her downtrodden father, and the courageous Sydney Carton, who would give his own love--and life--for a woman that would never be his.
作者简介：
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a huge city–cold, isolated with barely enough to eat–haunted him for the rest of his life.
When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Olive Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-3), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1855-7) reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) complete his major works.
Dickens’s marriage to Catherine Hoggarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day’s work at his home at Gads Hill, Kent on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day.
目录
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 Shoemake
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
