《雙城記(精)》是英國作家查爾斯·狄*斯所著的一部以法國大革命為背景所寫成的長篇歷史小說，情節感人肺腑，是世界文學經典名著之一，故事中將巴黎、倫敦兩個大城市連結起來，圍繞著曼馬內特醫生一家和以德法日夫婦為首的聖安東尼區展開故事。小說裡描寫了貴族如何敗壞、如何殘害百姓，人民心中積壓對貴族的刻骨仇恨，導致了不可避免的法國大革命，本書的主要思想是為了愛而自我犧牲。書名中的”雙城”指的是巴黎與倫敦。

由查爾斯·狄更斯著的《雙城記（精）》以18世 紀的法國大革命為背景，將巴黎、倫敦兩個大城市聯 結起來。寄居巴黎的名醫馬奈特偶然目睹了封建貴族 埃弗瑞蒙德兄弟草菅人命的暴行，因為打抱不平，反 被投入巴士底獄，監禁了十八年。出獄後，馬奈特之 女露西卻與仇家的兒子達內墮入情網。於是，在法國 大革命的旋渦中，一幕幕家族的恩怨情仇隆重上演。

Book the First: Recalled to Life
Chapter 1 The Period
Chapter 2 The Mail
Chapter 3 The Night Shadows
Chapter 4 The Preparation
Chapter 5 The Wineshop
Chapter 6 The Shoemaker
Book the Second: The Golden Thread
Chapter l Five Years Later
Chapter 2 A Sight
Chapter 3 A Disappointment
Chapter 4 Congratulatory
Chapter 5 The Jackal
Chapter 6 Hundreds of People
Chapter 7 Monseigneur in Town
Chapter 8 Monseigneur in the Country
Chapter 9 The Gorgon's Head
Chapter 10 Two Promises
Chapter 11 A Companion Picture
Chapter 12 The Fellow of Delicacy
Chapter 13 The Fellow of No Delicacy
Chapter 14 The Honest Tradesman
Chapter 15 Knitting
Chapter 16 Still Knitting
Chapter 17 One Night
Chapter 18 Nine Days
Chapter 19 An Opinion
Chapter 20 A Plea
Chapter 21 Echoing Footsteps
Chapter 22 The Sea Still Rises
Chapter 23 Fire Rises
Chapter 24 Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
Book the Third: The Track of a Storm
Chapter 1 In Secret
Chapter 2 The Grindstone
Chapter 3 The Shadow
Chapter 4 Calm in Storm
Chapter 5 The Wood-sawyer
Chapter 6 Triumph
Chapter 7 A Knock at the Door
Chapter 8 A Hand at Cards
Chapter 9 The Game Made
Chapter 10 The Substance of the Shadow
Chapter 11 Dusk
Chapter 12 Darkness
Chapter 13 Fifty-two
Chapter 14 The Knitting Done
Chapter 15 The Footsteps Die Out for Ever

Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, andthe Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in hispocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur,to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips. One lacquey car-ried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled andfrothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function;a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth ( he of the two gold wat- ches), poured the chocolate out. It was impossible for Monseigneur todispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his highplace under the admiring Heavens. Deep would have been the blot uponhis escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only threemen; he must have died of two. Monseigneur had been out at a little supper last night, where theComedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented. Monseigneurwas out at a little supper most nights, with fascinating company. So po-lite and so impressible was Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the GrandOpera had far more influence with him in the tiresome articles of state af-fairs and state secrets, than the needs of all France. A happy circum- stance for France, as the like always is for all countries similarly fa-voured ! --Always was for England ( by way of example), in the regret-ted days of the merry Stuart who sold it. Monseigneur had one truly noble idea of general public business,which was, to let everything go on in its own way; of particular publicbusiness, Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea that it must all gohis way--tend to his own power and pocket. Of his pleasures, generaland particular, Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea, that theworld was made for them. The text of his order ( altered from the originalby only a pronoun, which is not much) ran:" The earth and the fulnessthereof are mine, saith Monseigneur. " Yet, Monseigneur had slowly found that vulgar embarrassments creptinto his affairs, both private and public; and he had, as to both classesof affairs, allied himself perforce with a Farmer-General. As to financespublic, because Monseigneur could not make anything at all of them,and must consequently let them out to somebody who could; as to fi-nances private, because Farmer-Generals were rich, and Monseigneur,after generations of great luxury and expense, was growing poor. HenceMonseigneur had taken his sister from a convent, while there was yettime to ward off the impending veil, the cheapest garment she couldwear, and had bestowed her as a prize upon a very rich Farmer-General,poor in family. Which Farmer-General, carrying an appropriate canewith a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in theouter rooms, much prostrated before by mankind--always excepting su-perior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife includ-ed, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt. A sumptuous man was the Farmer-General. Thirty horses stood in hisstables, twenty- four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-womenwaited on his wife. As one who pretended to do nothing but plunder andforage where he could, the Farmer- General--howsoever his matrimonialrelations conduced to social morality--was at least the greatest reality a-mong the personages who attended at the hotel of Monseigneur that day. P118-119