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The Project Gutenberg Etext of A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens [The rest of Dickens is forthcoming]
CONTENTS
Book the First--Recalled to Life
* Chapter I The Period
* Chapter II The Mail
* Chapter III The Night Shadows
* Chapter IV The Preparation
* Chapter V The Wine-shop
* Chapter VI The Shoemaker
Book the Second--the Golden Thread
* Chapter I Five Years Later
* Chapter II A Sight
* Chapter III A Disappointment
* Chapter IV Congratulatory
* Chapter V The Jackal
* Chapter VI Hundreds of People
* Chapter VII Monseigneur in Town
* Chapter VIII Monseigneur in the Country
* Chapter IX The Gorgon's Head
* Chapter X Two Promises
* Chapter XI A Companion Picture
* Chapter XII The Fellow of Delicacy
* Chapter XIII The Fellow of no Delicacy
* Chapter XIV The Honest Tradesman
* Chapter XV Knitting
* Chapter XVI Still Knitting
* Chapter XVII One Night
* Chapter XVIII Nine Days
* Chapter XIX An Opinion
* Chapter XX A Plea
* Chapter XXI Echoing Footsteps
* Chapter XXII The Sea still Rises
* Chapter XXIII Fire Rises
* Chapter XXIV Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
Book the Third--the Track of a Storm
* Chapter I In Secret
* Chapter II The Grindstone
* Chapter III The Shadow
* Chapter IV Calm in Storm
* Chapter V The Wood-sawyer
* Chapter VI Triumph
* Chapter VII A Knock at the Door
* Chapter VIII A Hand at Cards
* Chapter IX The Game Made
* Chapter X The Substance of the Shadow
* Chapter XI Dusk
* Chapter XII Darkness
* Chapter XIII Fifty-two
* Chapter XIV The Knitting Done
* Chapter XV The Footsteps die out For ever
Book the First--Recalled to Life
I
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
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