《雙城記》是英國作家查爾斯·狄更斯所著的一部以法國大革命為背景所寫成的長篇?dú)v史小說，情節(jié)感人肺腑，是世界文學(xué)經(jīng)典名著之一，故事中將巴黎、倫敦兩個(gè)大城市連結(jié)起來，圍繞著曼馬內(nèi)特醫(yī)生一家和以德法日夫婦為首的圣安東尼區(qū)展開故事。小說里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(dǎo)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。
Madame Defarge, one of literature's most horrifying characters, knits as the heads roll in Dickens' tale of the French Revolution. She is the symbol of the Revolution's malevolence. Dickens masterfully contrasts the cruelties of the Old Regime with the savagery of the formerly oppressed peasants visiting their suffering upon the heads of the nobility and all those accused of counterrevolutionary activity. At the same time, the alternative to both the old guard and the modern guillotine is the possibility of redemption. I
