介紹雙城記

A Tale of Two Cities
The Penguin Classics 2002 paperback edition of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Author Charles Dickens
Country Great Britain
Language English
Genre(s) Historical novel
Publisher Chapman and Hall
Released 1859
Media Type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. Dickens' primary source for this historical novel is Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution. The narrative is extraordinarily dependent upon correspondence as a medium for ensuring the flow of events, and while not an epistolary novel in the way that Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses is, nevertheless, it is immediately apparent that the flow of letters forms a driving center to much of the narrative development in this novel. The novel covers a period in history between 1775 and 1793, from the American Revolution until the middle period of the French Revolution.
Contents

1 Plot summary
1.1 Book the First: Recalled to Life
1.2 Book the Second: The Golden Thread
1.3 Book the Third: The Track of a Storm
2 Characters in "A Tale of Two Cities"
3 Adaptations
Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look very alike but are entirely different in character. Darnay is a romantic descended from French aristocrats, while Carton is a cynical English barrister. The two are in love with the same woman, Lucie Manette: one of them will give up his life for her, and the other will marry her.
Other major characters in the book include Dr. Alexandre Manette (Lucie's father) who was unjustly imprisoned in the infamous Bastille for many years prior to the commencement of the novel under a lettre de cachet and Madame Defarge, a female revolutionary with a grudge against Darnay's family.
The twists and turns in the novel are sinuous. Originally written as a serial novel for publication in newspapers, the chapters open and close with great drama and mystery. Dickens' take on the French Revolution is balanced - he describes the horrors and atrocities committed on both sides.
The two cities named in the title are London and Paris. Throughout the novel, pairs of people, places, etc. are compared and contrasted.
The opening sentence, beginning with the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," is one of the most famous in all literature. The final line, the thoughts of Sydney Carton, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known," is almost as famous.
more：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities

《雙城記》是英國作家查爾斯·狄更斯所著的一部長篇歷史小說。

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故事綱要
查爾斯·達尼（Charles Darney）和雪梨·卡爾頓（Sydney Carton）外貌相似，但性格卻完全不同。達尼是法國貴族後裔，但是他對其家族壓迫勞動者的行為感到不滿，因此一人在倫敦謀生。卡爾頓是一個有才華但憤世嫉俗的英國律師。兩人愛上了同一個女人，詹姆士·曼奈特。詹姆士的父親曼奈特醫生也是法國人，曾以政治犯身份入獄18年，釋放後與兒子一起定居倫敦。詹姆士愛上了達尼，兩人在曼奈特醫生同意後結婚。

法國大革命爆發後，已經繼承家業的達尼為保護一名家族僱員不受迫害而趕回時局紛亂的巴黎，但卻因其家族背景而被捕。得知消息後露西與曼奈特醫生也一起趕到巴黎，曼奈特醫生利用其老政治犯的威望拯救被囚禁的達尼。雖然達尼最後重獲自由，但是很快又因被人檢舉而重新入獄，檢舉人竟然是曾經幫助過曼奈特醫生的德法奇夫人，一個堅定的女革命者。

法庭上，德法奇夫人遞交了關鍵性的證據：曼奈特醫生獄中所寫的一份有關入獄經過的手稿。原來曼奈特醫生因檢舉埃弗蒙德家族性醜聞事件，最後卻被判刑。而達尼就是埃弗蒙德家族的後裔。法庭判決達尼死刑。這時依然愛慕露西的卡爾頓也來到巴黎，為了幫助心上人的愛人，他偷偷潛入監獄，頂替達尼，並且最後被處死，而達尼一家則得以逃出法國。

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評價
《雙城記》通過革命中一個家庭的遭遇，譴責革命的殘暴，但同時又揭露了革命前貴族對普通勞動者的殘酷行徑。書的開卷語，「那是最美好的時代，那是最糟糕的時代」（It was the best of times. It was the worst of times）已經成為文學史中的經典名句。

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. Dickens' primary source for this historical novel is Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution. The narrative is extraordinarily dependent upon correspondence as a medium for ensuring the flow of events, and while not an epistolary novel in the way that Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses is, nevertheless, it is immediately apparent that the flow of letters forms a driving center to much of the narrative development in this novel. The novel covers a period in history between 1775 and 1793, from the American Revolution until the middle period of the French Revolution.

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