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When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause—La Guillotine—the new invention for efficiently chopping off heads.

Charles Dickens' compelling portrait of the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice continues to captivate readers around the world. With Frank Muller's brilliant performance, unforgettable characters—the ever-knitting Madame Defarge, the lovely Lucie Manette, her broken father, the honorable Charles Darnay, and the sometimes scurrilous Sydney Carton—burst from the pages, full of life and passion.

This novel provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history, during the French Revolution.

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The human story behind the French Revolution is embodied in four of Dickens's greatest characters: Madame Defarge, Lucie Manette and her husband Charles Darnay, and the misanthrope Sydney Carton whose final sacrifice gives meaning to his life.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780141196909
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/26/2011
  • Pages: 544
  • Sales rank: 51,360
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Andrew Sanders is a lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, London. He is Honorary Editor of The Dickensian, and editor of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackerary, and Sylvia's Lovers by Mrs Gaskell, both in The World's Classics series.

Biography

Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age.

In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals.

It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. His early novels Oliver Twist (1837-1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and A Christmas Carol (1843) solidified his enormous, ongoing popularity. As Dickens matured, his social criticism became increasingly biting, his humor dark, and his view of poverty darker still. David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) are the great works of his masterful and prolific period.

In 1858 Dickens's twenty-three-year marriage to Catherine Hogarth dissolved when he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. The last years of his life were filled with intense activity: writing, managing amateur theatricals, and undertaking several reading tours that reinforced the public's favorable view of his work but took an enormous toll on his health. Working feverishly to the last, Dickens collapsed and died on June 8, 1870, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood uncompleted.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of David Copperfield.

    1. Also Known As:
      Charles John Huffam Dickens (full name) "Boz" (pen name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      February 7, 1812
    2. Place of Birth:
      Portsmouth, England
    1. Date of Death:
      June 18, 1870
    2. Place of Death:
      Gad's Hill, Kent, England

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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 to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.

France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that suffer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped in his character of "the Captain," gallently shot him through the head and rode away; the mail was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, "in consequence of the failure of his ammunition": after which the mail was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the lord Mayor of london, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Gile's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way. In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now, burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.

All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand. Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures—the creatures of this chronicle among the rest—along the roads that lay before them.

All new material in this edition is copyright © 1998 Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Table of Contents

Insights into Charles Dickens
Book 1 Recalled to Life
Chapter 1 The Period 16
Chapter 2 The Mail 20
Chapter 3 The Night Shadows (Summary) 27
Chapter 4 The Preparation 28
Chapter 5 The Wine-Shop 41
Chapter 6 The Shoemaker 53
Book 2 The Golden Thread
Chapter 1 Five Years Later (Summary) 67
Chapter 2 A Sight 69
Chapter 3 A Disappointment 77
Chapter 4 Congratulatory (Summary) 92
Chapter 5 The Jackal 94
Chapter 6 Hundreds of People (Summary) 101
Chapter 7 Monseigneur in Town (Summary) 103
Chapter 8 Monseigneur in the Country (Summary) 104
Chapter 9 The Gorgon's Head 105
Chapter 10 Two Promises 119
Chapter 11 A Companion Picture (Summary) 127
Chapter 12 The Fellow of Delicacy (Summary) 128
Chapter 13 The Fellow of No Delicacy 129
Chapter 14 The Honest Tradesman 134
Chapter 15 Knitting 145
Chapter 16 Still Knitting 157
Chapter 17 One Night (Summary) 169
Chapter 18 Nine Days 170
Chapter 19 An Opinion 177
Chapter 20 A Plea (Summary) 185
Chapter 21 Echoing Footsteps 186
Chapter 22 The Sea Still Rises 199
Chapter 23 Fire Rises (Summary) 205
Chapter 24 Drawn to the Loadstone Rock 207
Book 3 The Track of A Storm
Chapter 1 In Secret 221
Chapter 2 The Grindstone (Summary) 234
Chapter 3 The Shadow 236
Chapter 4 Calm in Storm (Summary) 242
Chapter 5 The Wood-Sawyer (Summary) 244
Chapter 6 Triumph 246
Chapter 7 A Knock at the Door (Summary) 254
Chapter 8 A Hand at Cards 255
Chapter 9 The Game Made 268
Chapter 10 The Substance of the Shadow 283
Chapter 11 Dusk (Summary) 298
Chapter 12 Darkness 299
Chapter 13 Fifty-Two 308
Chapter 14 The Knitting Done 321
Chapter 15 The Footsteps Die Out Forever 334

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 10, 2009

    Finally an unabridged reading!

    Excellently done!

    17 out of 22 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 4, 2011

    Very good read

    The Tale of Two Cities is a very good book about the 1700's. The author uses fake characters to describe the life abd times there. This is an excellent book for those who want history but a little fun too. All in all, I would recommend this book.

    11 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 12, 2010

    more from this reviewer

    Timeless....another great book I blew off in High school

    Glad i finally grew up and started reading

    8 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 19, 2009

    Best Book I've Ever Read

    This is my favorite book of all time, I absolutely loved it from beginning to end. It made me cry and laugh out loud in class--even though I was supposed to be watching a movie or doing an assignment and got in trouble for reading. The plot was amazing, the characters were captivating and the narrative was entertaining. I love strong female characters and Madame Defarge was simply brilliant. But as awesome as she was, Sydney Carton was my favorite. Those last few chapters, I could not stop crying. My only complaint about this book is that there should have been more about him.

    7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 12, 2010

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    Excellent book!

    This is one of the best books I have ever read. The Penguin Classics edition offers detailed end-notes, as always. The only complaint I have with this edition, though, is that some of the end-notes revealed a bit of the plot. The story was not completely ruined, so it is not really a big deal. Overall, an excellent book.

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 20, 2011

    Birthday gift.

    Best gift a friend could give. Thanks Spock.

    2 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 15, 2011

    Extremely poor scan

    You get what you pay for! This is a very crude version of the text, straight from a scan via OCR with no proofreading whatsoever. Spend the few bucks to get a version of this great book that you can actually read!

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2011

    Depends

    This book is extremely good BUT this is mainly for people who love literature. Once you get interested in this book and get passed the first few chapters you will want to read this over and over again to see what you missed. I hope if you buy this you are dedicated because it will hook you. Enjoy!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 24, 2011

    Hard.

    This book was very hard to understand. The language in the book is english but is only for the author to unfderstand.

    1 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 15, 2009

    A Fabulous Tale

    This is my first novel on CD and I have been thoroughly enjoying the experience. Of course, it helps that it is also my first Dickens novel. Every character comes to life in the descriptions and every scene is painted in my mind's eye as Dickens unfolds the story. The narator also does a wonderful job. Fantastic!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 20, 2000

    If At All Possible, Avoid It

    I'm 13.. I'm in honors English. I read A Tale of Two Cities along with the rest of my class. I didnt understand. I get the gist of it, but it's so detailed and long, you dont have a clue by the time you read a chapter. I have to read a chapter at least 3 times to sort-of understand.I know probably everyone will have to read it someday, but if at all possible.. AVOID!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2012

    Should be on your reading "bucket list"

    My husband and I are reading "A Tale of Two Cities" to commemorate Dickens' 200th birthday. Combined with "A Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Les Miserables" it gives a fascinating perspective on the French Revolution. This is a nice copy to add to a library for those of us who love beautiful books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 23, 2012

    Typos

    There are too many spelling errors in this book to even get past the 1st page, its not worth the space on your nook

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    Posted March 28, 2012

    Dont

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    Posted March 20, 2012

    REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Posted March 17, 2012

    A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Charles Dickens’ nove

    A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities is a combination of history and fiction in which Dickens creates a storyline based on the events of the French Revolution (1789-1799), such as the Storming of the Bastille that started the revolution (Chapter 21). By writing about history, Dickens is able to influence the reader to see issues of humanity from his perspective reinforced through the validity of actual events. Written from a third person perspective, the narrator switches between the settings of two cities, London and Paris, and reveals the character’s thoughts and actions while revealing his own emotional and moral thoughts by sympathizing with the characters in the story. Even though the novel is in third person, Charles Dickens maintains a very personal writing style in which he involves himself, or in this case the narrator and the reader by mimicking the scenes in the story through the manner in which the sentences are structured. For example, when talking about the chaos of a rebellion, the thought flow of the sentences is choppy and jumbled, with repeating emphasis on parts the author wants to stand out.
    The plot of the story after the rising action was suspense followed by relief which was then followed by repeated suspense. Through the development of characters, mainly Madame Defarge and Sydney Carton, Dickens successfully created an unexpected resolution to the conflict, and, by the death of a seemingly worthless character, he revealed his personal belief and theme of his novel: the possibility of resurrection and transformation. Furthermore, the theme is seen through the emphasis on one of the many motifs in the story: imprisonment. Every character in the story battled against some form of imprisonment–for some it was literal, and for others it was more of a mental struggle. For instance, Charles Darnay and Doctor Manette both faced actual imprisonment, but Sydney Carton was held captive by his doubts of self-worth. Later in the story, every character reveals a physical or mental transformation brought about by their imprisonment that results in the character changing for the better. In the last few paragraphs of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens exposes his hinted belief by saying that the death of one of the protagonists would still result in the continuation of life in the “sanctuary [of the] hearts” of those he had saved, further emphasizing the belief of redemption and resurrection.
    Before reading the novel, my presuppositions differed greatly from the actual content and meaning of the story. I expected an action-packed, almost horror, writing based during the time period of the French Revolution, but instead I got a story that focused on the characterization of many of the characters and the struggles that each faced. Normally a story like this wouldn’t appeal to me, but Dickens kept my attention with more than just the thought of finishing the book. While based in a dark, grim setting, the author formed the characters in a way that without each other they were helpless, but with each other they were able to overcome the oppression of the revolution. However, he didn’t just provide characteristics about the characters; he created rounded characters that changed as the story continued and that let the reader feel the struggles each of them faced. Therefore, because Charles Dickens created a twist in the resolution of the story and managed to develop characters that were more than just figures in a story, the story is most definitely a recommended read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2012

    One of the best books I have ever read

    I had to read this for class and I must day it was very good. The begining is a little slow and confusing, as Dickens skips to different people alot. But hang in there and you will be suprized at how amazing this book actually is. Not normaly a fan of romance based books, but this one gives the impression that it is not one. There is so much not romance related to keep even the most anti-romance person interested!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2012

    boring

    puts me to sleep

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2012

    Good book

    Personaly i think the movie is wayy better but at first i didnt want read this but after i watched the movie i understood it better You just have to get into the book!!!!

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