tailieunhanh - A Tale Of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) là quyển tiểu thuyết lịch sử thứ 2 của Charles Dickens, lấy bối cảnh ở Anh và Pháp trước và trong suốt cuộc cách mạng Pháp. Nó mô tả hoàn cảnh khốn khổ của giai cấp vâ sản dưới sự áp bức của tầng lớp quý tộc Pháp. Cuốn tiểu thuyết cũng mô tả cuộc sống của nhiều nhà cách mạng, trong đó nổi bật nhất là Charles Darnay, một nhà quý tộc Pháp và Sydney Carton, một luật sư người Anh. | A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens Prepared and Published by Ebd Book the First Recalled to Life I The Period It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we were all going direct to Heaven we were all going direct the other way in short the period was so far like 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 throne of England there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years after rapping out its messages as the spirits of this very year last past supernaturally deficient in originality rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People from a congress of British subjects in America which strange to relate have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cocklane brood. France less favoured on the whole as