A Tale of Two Cities (Original English Version)

Name: A Tale of Two Cities (Original English Version)
Author: (UK) by Charles Dickens

双城记（英文原版）

by (UK) by Charles Dickens (（英）查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）著)

Status: Completed
Source: Fanqie

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"A Tale of Two Cities" is one of Dickens's most famous works. It is an outstanding representative work of realist literature in the 19th century and has a profound influence on British and even world literature. The "Two Cities" in the title refers to Paris and London. The novel is divided into three parts with a total of 45 chapters. It takes the French Revolution as the background and reproduces the historical appearance of Paris and London as well as the entire France and England at that time. It uses the experience of the fictional character Dr. Manette as the main clue. It revolves around Dr. Manette's family and the Saint-Antoine district headed by the Defarges. It interweaves three independent but interrelated stories of injustice, love and revenge. The significance of the novel is to use the past to satirize the present, and to be inspired by the historical experience of the French Revolution, trying to use literature to find a way out for the increasingly contradictory British society at that time.

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