A Tale of Two Cities is one of the most successful, if not the most successful, historical novels ever written. One of Charles Dickens''s shortest works, it does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bizarre and bloody events in history: the French Revolution of 1789 and its aftermath, culminating in the Terror of 1793-94.
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目錄：
Introduction
1. A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities
2. Before the Deluge
FROM:
Arthur Young, Travels in France during the Years
1787, 1788, 1789 1790
3. The Events of the French Revolution
Chronology
Principal Figures
ADAPTED FROM:
"Philo" Summarizes The French Revolution 1857
by Thomas Carlyle
4. Thomas Carlyle''s The French Revolution
FROM:
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution 1837
5. Dickens and Carlyle: Common Threads
FROM:
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution 1837
6. The Mob in Two Cities and the Terror
FROM:
Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge 1841
Helen Maria Williams, Letters on the French
Revolution, Written in France, in the Summer of
1790, to a Friend in England 1792
Anthony Trollope, La Vendee 1850
7. Voices from the Prisons of Paris in the Terror
FROM:
Olivier Blanc, Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of
the French Revolution, 1793-1794
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution 1837
Olivier Blanc, Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of
the French Revolution, 1793-1794
Marie-Jeanne Roland, Memoirs 1794
8. Revolution: When, What, and How
9. Due Process of Law: The Rights of Man
FROM:
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man 1790
Helen Maria Williams, Letters on the French
Revolution, Written in France, in the Summer of
1790, to a Friend in England 1792
Arthur Young, Travels in France during the Years
1787, 1788, 1789 1790
10. Capital Punishment: Usually Cruel Before
the Guillotine
11. Prison Isolation and Its Consequences
FROM:
Charles Dickens, American Notes 1842
12. Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man"
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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