双城记

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《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。

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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

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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。