《双城记》解读

Introduction1. A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities2. 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 Carlyle4. Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution FROM: Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (1837)

Introduction1. A Literary Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities2. 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 Carlyle4. 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 How9. 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 Guillotine11. Prison Isolation and Its Consequences FROM: Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842)12. Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man"GlossaryBibliographyIndex

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. ...