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1st Edition. - Hardcover - Chapman - 1859 - Condition: Very Good - No Jacket - A very good, first edition, first issue, rebound in leather, with all first issue points. As Hatton and Cleaver note in their bibliography, A Tale of Two Cities has "practically no 'points' sufficiently outstanding to distinguish the earlier printings." However, both H&C and Smith agree that copies with the misprint on page 213 corrected and lacking the signature "b" on page ix are decidedly second printings. This…

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Perhaps the most notorious knitter in fiction is Madame Thérèse Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Madame DeFarge is a tireless worker for the French Revolution who knits throughout the novel and as she knits she secretly encodes the names of people who are enemies to the Revolution and who are to be killed.

A Tale of Two Cities. I read this book in Jr. High & really liked it, even though it's a sad story. This is taken from the very beginning of the book & is one of the best starts to a book that I have ever read.

My next page of Wolf Wears Wool may be delayed because of a combination of plans swallowing up the rest of my week-end and because I received a smack to... Twenty Three and Twenty Two

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." - Charles Dickens, The Tale of Two Cities These lines are said by Sydney Carton, a character from The Tale Of Two Cities. He willingly gets ready to die in place of the husband (Charles Darnay) of the woman (Lucy) whom he dearly loves. He sacrifices his life for her and says these lines before getting executed.