双城记A Tale of Two Cities

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