双城记 目录

双城记 本书特色

《双城记》是世界*伟大的批判现实主义杰作之一，也是英国文豪狄更斯作品中故事情节*曲折惊险、*惊心动魄的小说之一。

双城记 节选

《双城记》(世界名著红蓝白系列)(A TALE OF TWO CITIES)小说以18世纪的法国大革命为背景，故事中将巴黎、伦敦两个大城市连结起来，叙述马奈特医生一家充满了爱与冒险的遭遇，中间穿插了贵族的残暴、人民的愤怒、审判间谍……本书为英文版。
法国大革命时期，马奈特医生偶然目睹了侯爵兄弟草菅人命的种种暴行，正直善良的马奈特医生不顾个人安危，告发侯爵的罪行，反而被投进了巴士底狱，长达18年之久。出狱后，马奈特之女露茜却与仇家的侄子达奈堕入情网。于是，在动荡的巴黎，一幕幕家族的恩怨情仇隆重上演，善、恶、生、死、爱在冲突中交融……

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It was the best of times,it was the worst of times,it wasthe age of wisdom,it was the age of foolishness,it wasthe epoch of belief,it was the epoch of incredulity,itwas the season of Light,it was the season of Darkness,it wasthe spring of hope，it was the winter of despair,we had every,thing before US,we had nothing before us,we were all goingdirect to Heaven,we were all going direct the other way-inshort,the period was SO far like the present period，that someof its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received，forgood or for eviL in the superlative degree of comparison only．
There were a king with a large iaw and a queen with aplainface,onthethroneofEngland；therewere akingwith alarge iaw and a queen with a fair face,on the throne of France．In both countries it was clearer than crystal to thelords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes,that things ingeneral were settled for ever．
It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hund-red and seventy-five．Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period,a sat this．Mrs．Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birth-day,of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had her-aided the sublime appearance by announcing that arrange-ments were made for the swallowing up of London andWestminster．Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only around dozen of years,after rapping out its messages,as thespirits of this very year last past（supernaturally deficient inoriginality）rapped out theirs．Mere messages in the earthlyorder of events had lately come to the English Crown andPeople，from a congress of British subjects in America：which,strange to relate,have proved more important to the humanrace than any communications yet received through any ofthe chickens of the Cock-lane brood．
France,less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritualthan her sister of the shield and trident,roHed with exceed-ing smoothness down hill,making paper money an

双城记 作者简介

查理斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens，1812--1870)是英国十九世纪伟大的批判现实主义作家，一生创作了大量作品，广泛描写了19世纪英国维多利亚时代的社会生活，揭露了资产阶级金钱世界的种种罪恶。