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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
by
Charles Dickens
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Wisehouse Classics
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ( “Phiz”), 1859
Cover: Scene from the French Revolution ” by Walter William Ouless
Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi
Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-137-4
Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.
© Wisehouse 2016 – Sweden
© Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Contents
Book the First—Recalled to Life
Book the Second—the Golden Thread
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
Book the First—Recalled to Life
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
