A TALE OF TWO CITIES - A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Included - Full length Story, and Summary with Analysis, Biography and Video link【電子書籍】[ Charles Dickens ]

＜p＞It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞As its title promises, this brief chapter establishes the era in which the novel takes place: England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"-but resembles the "present period" in which Dickens writes. In England, the public worries over religious prophecies, popular paranormal phenomena in the form of "the Cock-lane ghost," and the messages that a colony of British subjects in America has sent to King George III. France, on the other hand, witnesses excessive spending and extreme violence, a trend that anticipates the erection of the guillotine. Yet in terms of peace and order, English society cannot "justify much national boasting" either-crime and capital punishment abound.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a brief note, Dickens mentions the source of inspiration for ＜em＞A Tale of Two Cities．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る