A Tale of Two CitiesJames Nisbet & Company, Limited, 1902 - 324 pages "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens' classic novel tells the story of two Englishmen--degenerate lawyer Sydney Carton and aristocrat Charles Darnay--who fall in love with the same woman in the midst of the French Revolution's blood and terror. Originally published as 31 weekly instalments,A Tale of Two Cities has been adapted several times for film, serves as a rite of passage for many students, and is one of the most famous novels ever published. This is a free digital copy of a book that has been carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. To make this print edition available as an ebook, we have extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and submitted it to a review process to ensure its accuracy and legibility across different screen sizes and devices. Google is proud to partner with libraries to make this book available to readers everywhere. |
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... present form . Throughout its execution it has had complete possession of me ; I have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages , as that I have certainly done and suffered it all myself . Whenever any reference ( however ...
... present form . Throughout its execution it has had complete possession of me ; I have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages , as that I have certainly done and suffered it all myself . Whenever any reference ( however ...
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... present period , that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received , for good or for evil , in the superlative degree of comparison only . There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face , on the ...
... present period , that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received , for good or for evil , in the superlative degree of comparison only . There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face , on the ...
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... present mode . I never saw the mode . I have had a pattern in my hand . " He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles ...
... present mode . I never saw the mode . I have had a pattern in my hand . " He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles ...
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... present , except the one wigged gentleman who looked at the ceiling , stared at him . All the human breath in the place , rolled at him , like a sea , or a wind , or a fire . Eager faces strained round pillars and corners to get a sight ...
... present , except the one wigged gentleman who looked at the ceiling , stared at him . All the human breath in the place , rolled at him , like a sea , or a wind , or a fire . Eager faces strained round pillars and corners to get a sight ...
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... present in that condition . Please to go on . " 36 He told me that he was travelling on business of a delicate and difficult nature which might get people into trouble , and that he was therefore travelling under an assumed name . He ...
... present in that condition . Please to go on . " 36 He told me that he was travelling on business of a delicate and difficult nature which might get people into trouble , and that he was therefore travelling under an assumed name . He ...
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Page 453 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away.
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Page 63 - TELLSON'S Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the house were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness. They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable,...