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Fiction · 1859

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Reading time
about 10 h
Length
136,151 words · 340 pages in print
Structure
45 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Between London and Paris in the years before and during the French Revolution, a released prisoner of the Bastille, his daughter, a French aristocrat who has renounced his name and a dissolute English lawyer who resembles him are drawn together, and finally to the guillotine.

Charles Dickens published the novel in weekly parts in 1859. It is his most concentrated historical fiction, shorter than most of his books, and its opening and closing sentences are among the best known in the language.

Its three books — “Recalled to Life”, “The Golden Thread”, “The Track of a Storm” — are given complete.

Contents

  1. Book the First — Recalled to Life
  2. Chapter I — The Period
  3. Chapter II — The Mail
  4. Chapter III — The Night Shadows
  5. Chapter IV — The Preparation
  6. Chapter V — The Wine-shop
  7. Chapter VI — The Shoemaker
  8. Book the Second — the Golden Thread
  9. Chapter I — Five Years Later
  10. Chapter II — A Sight
  11. Chapter III — A Disappointment
  12. Chapter IV — Congratulatory
  13. Chapter V — The Jackal
  14. Chapter VI — Hundreds of People
  15. Chapter VII — Monseigneur in Town
  16. Chapter VIII — Monseigneur in the Country
  17. Chapter IX — The Gorgon’s Head
  18. Chapter X — Two Promises
  19. Chapter XI — A Companion Picture
  20. Chapter XII — The Fellow of Delicacy
  21. Chapter XIII — The Fellow of No Delicacy
  22. Chapter XIV — The Honest Tradesman
  23. Chapter XV — Knitting
  24. Chapter XVI — Still Knitting
  25. Chapter XVII — One Night
  26. Chapter XVIII — Nine Days
  27. Chapter XIX — An Opinion
  28. Chapter XX — A Plea
  29. Chapter XXI — Echoing Footsteps
  30. Chapter XXII — The Sea Still Rises
  31. Chapter XXIII — Fire Rises
  32. Chapter XXIV — Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
  33. Book the Third — the Track of a Storm
  34. Chapter I — In Secret
  35. Chapter II — The Grindstone
  36. Chapter III — The Shadow
  37. Chapter IV — Calm in Storm
  38. Chapter V — The Wood-Sawyer
  39. Chapter VI — Triumph
  40. Chapter VII — A Knock at the Door
  41. Chapter VIII — A Hand at Cards
  42. Chapter IX — The Game Made
  43. Chapter X — The Substance of the Shadow
  44. Chapter XI — Dusk
  45. Chapter XII — Darkness
  46. Chapter XIII — Fifty-two
  47. Chapter XIV — The Knitting Done
  48. Chapter XV — The Footsteps Die Out for Ever

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Charles Dickens

1812–1870 · Victorian

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