A Tale of Two Cities [平装]

《双城记》内容简介：狄更斯（1812-1870），英国十九世纪文豪。《双城记》堪称他迟暮之年的巅峰之作。法国大革命时期，名医马奈特偶然目睹了封建贵族埃弗瑞蒙德兄弟草营人命的暴行，因为打抱不平，反被投入巴士底狱，监禁了十八年。出狱后，马奈特之女露茜却与仇家的儿子达奈堕入情网。于是，在法国革命的旋涡中，一幕幕家族的恩怨情仇隆重上演，善、恶、生、死在冲突中交融，在转瞬间变换……《双城记》结构严整，语言凝练，狄更斯对革命与人性的深度思考和令人叹为观止的写作才华，在其中得到了淋漓尽致的展现。

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

作者：(英国)狄更斯(Charles Dickens)

查尔斯·狄更斯(Dickens.C.)，(1812—1870)，英国著名小说家，19世纪著名批判现实主义作家，19世纪英国最受欢迎的作家。他以妙趣横生的幽默和讽刺、细致入微的心理分析，以及现实主义描写与浪漫主义气氛的巧妙融合而著称。他的14部揭露与抨击英国社会时弊的巨制，在英国，乃至整个世界文学史上掀起了现实主义的新高潮。狄更斯始终怀着一颗人道主义的心来创作，他被后世奉为“召唤人们回到欢笑和仁爱中来的明灯”、批判现实主义最杰出的代表。马克思把他和他同时代的英国著名作家萨克雷等称誉为英国的“一批杰出的小说家”。

Charles Dickens was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. He received little formal education, but taught himself shorthand and became a reporter of parliamentary debates for the <I>Morning Chronicle</I>. He began to publish sketches in various periodicals, which were subsequently republished as Sketches by Boz. <I>The Pickwick Papers</I> were published in 1836–7 and after a slow start became a publishing phenomenon and Dickens's characters the centre of a popular cult. He began <I>Oliver Twist</I> in 1837, followed by <I>Nicholas Nickleby</I> (1838) and <I>The Old Curiosity Shop</I> (1840–41).After finishing <I>Barnaby Rudge</I> (1841) Dickens set off for America; he went full of enthusiasm for the young republic but, in spite of a triumphant reception, he returned disillusioned. His experiences are recorded in <I>American Notes</I> (1842). <I>Martin Chuzzlewit</I> (1843–4) did not repeat its predecessors' success but this was quickly redressed by the huge popularity of the Christmas Books, of which the first, <I>A Christmas Carol</I>, appeared in 1843. During 1844–6 Dickens travelled abroad and he began <I>Dombey and Son</I> while in Switzerland. This and <I>David Copperfield</I> (1849–50) were more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early novels. In later works, such as <I>Bleak House</I> (1853) and <I>Little Dorrit</I> (1857), Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870.