A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the vio …… [ 展开全部 ]
lent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern f...(展开全部)
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes--imprisonment, injustice, and social anarchy, resurrection and the renunciation that fosters renewal. [ 收起 ]
VII
A Knok at the door
"I have saved him . ' it was not anot her of the dreams in which he had often come back he was really here . and yet his wife trembled , and a vague but heavy fear was upon her .
All the air round was so thick and dark ,the people were passionately revengeful and fitf y le innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black malice , it was so impossible to forget that many as blameless as her husband and as dear to others as he was to her every day shared the fate from which he had been clutched , that he heart could not be as ightened of its load as she felt it ought to be the shadows of the wintry afternoon were beginning to fall , and even now the dreadful carts were rolling through the streets . her mind pursued ther looking for him among the condemned , and then she clung closer to his real presence and trembled more.
A Knok at the door
"I have saved him . ' it was not anot her of the dreams in which he had often come back he was really here . and yet his wife trembled , and a vague but heavy fear was upon her .
All the air round was so thick and dark ,the people were passionately revengeful and fitf y le innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black malice , it was so impossible to forget that many as blameless as her husband and as dear to others as he was to her every day shared the fate from which he had been clutched , that he heart could not be as ightened of its load as she felt it ought to be the shadows of the wintry afternoon were beginning to fall , and even now the dreadful carts were rolling through the streets . her mind pursued ther looking for him among the condemned , and then she clung closer to his real presence and trembled more.