Novel Flashcards

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Beauvais, France

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Dr. Manette’s city of birth

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Dover, England

Back 2

English port town from which ships depart to France; Mr. Lorry meets
Lucie Manette at the Royal George Hotel in this village

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Dover road

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The main thoroughfare from London to the port city across from
France

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London, England

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Dickens moved to this city in 1822; much of the action in A Tale of
Two Cities takes place here

Front 5

Old Bailey

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London’s principal criminal courthouse; Darnay’s first trial occurs here

Front 6

Paris, France

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Dickens visited this city in 1846 and again during his 1853-56
European tour; much of the action in A Tale of Two Cities takes place
here

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Place de la Révolution

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The square in Paris where the guillotine in A Tale of Two Cities stands

Front 8

Saint Antoine

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A poor quarter of Paris; the location of Defarge’s wine shop; a hotbed
of revolutionary activity

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Saint Germaine

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The neighborhood in which Tellson’s Paris branch is located

Front 10

Soho

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The London neighborhood where the Manettes live

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Temple Bar

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A famous gate in London; for many years, executioners displayed the
severed heads of convicts on the gate’s spikes; Tellson’s stands next to
this ominous structure

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Wales

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Dr. Manette meets Lucie and Charles in this region of the United
Kingdom for the second fortnight of their honeymoon

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Whitefriars

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The London neighborhood in which Jerry Cruncher lives

Front 14

Warwickshire, England

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Lucie and Charles visit this region in the United Kingdom during the
first two weeks of their honeymoon

Front 15

North Tower

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The part of the Bastille in which Dr. Manette lived in solitary
confinement for 18 years

Front 16

La Force

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Charles Darnay languishes in this infamous prison for over a year
without trial

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Bastille

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An icon of the abuses of the Old Regime; Dr. Manette suffers almost
18 years of solitary confinement here; the Defarges lead the mob that
storms this prison and dismantles its eight towers

Front 18

All the Year Round

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A weekly journal that Dickens founded in 1859; its first issue
contained the first three chapters of A Tale of Two Cities; Great
Expectations (1860) and Our Mutual Friend (1864) soon followed

Front 19

Pickwick Papers

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One of Dickens’s early serialized works; sold 40,000 copies and made
Dickens England’s most popular author; mentions Warren’s Blacking
Factory by name

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A Tale of Two Cities

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The selected novel; Dickens serialized it weekly between April 30 and
November 26, 1859, in All the Year Round

Front 21

Boz

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Pen name of Charles Dickens; inspired the title of Dickens’s first
published collection

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Dickens, Charles

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Renowned 19th-century author of A Tale of Two Cities; capitalized on
the emerging practice of serializing novels in small segments in weekly
and monthly journals; became the most popular author in England
when he was only 25 years old

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Carton, Sydney

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The anti-hero of A Tale of Two Cities; Darnay’s dark double; works as
a barrister in London, in which position he is also known as Stryver’s
“jackal”; loves Lucie Manette but does not pursue a relationship
because he fears his sins will corrupt her; sacrifices himself to save
Charles Darnay from the guillotine

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Barsad, John

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The spy alias of Solomon Pross in A Tale of Two Cities

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Cruncher, Jerry

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In A Tale of Two Cities, a porter for Tellson’s Bank and a nighttime
grave robber; beats his wife for praying; after witnessing the bloodshed
of the French Revolution, he vows to give up both the grave robbing
and the abuse

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Mrs. Cruncher

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The devout wife of Jerry Cruncher; disapproves of his nighttime grave
robbing; prays frequently and suffers her husband’s verbal and physical
abuse as a result

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Darnay, Charles

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One of the main characters in A Tale of Two Cities; born a French
aristocrat by birth, he renounces the evil ways of the Evrémonde family
and moves to England; marries Lucie Manette; endures three trials
throughout the course of the novel; a handsome, noble man who bears
the qualities of a typical hero; Sydney Carton ultimately sacrifices
himself to save this man; shares Dickens’s initials

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Darnay, Sydney

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The son of Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay; becomes a famous
barrister, bringing credit to his dead namesake

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Defarge, Ernest

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In A Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Manette’s former servant and one of the
leaders of the peasant revolutionaries of Saint Antoine; owns a wine
shop; at the end of the novel, he suffers conflicting loyalties when his
wife wishes to persecute Dr. Manette and his family

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Marquis St. Evrémonde

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Charles Darnay’s uncle in A Tale of Two Cities; a cruel aristocrat who
crushes a peasant child under his carriage; in 1757, when his twin
brother was the Marquis, this man raped a peasant girl and stabbed her
brother

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Defarge, Thérèse

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In A Tale of Two Cities, the wife of Ernest Defarge; she represents the
iconic leader of the female revolutionaries; always knitting, she registers
the names of the enemies of the revolution in her patterns; the younger
sister of the peasant girl and boy whom the Evrémonde twins killed;
Miss Pross accidentally shoots this woman at the end of the novel

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Foulon

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In A Tale of Two Cities, an old man who once suggested that the poor
people of France should eat grass if they were hungry; the vengeful
mob of Saint Antoine murders him and his son-in-law

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Gabelle, Théophile

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The postmaster in the village near the Evrémonde château; a loyal
servant of the Evrémondes; administers the estate when Darnay
inherits; writes the letter that persuades Darnay to return to Paris at the
height of the revolution; his name derives from the name of a
particularly hated salt tax

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Gaspard

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The poor Parisian man whose young son the Marquis St. Evrémonde
crushes under his carriage; follows the Marquis to his chateau and
murders the cruel aristocrat in his sleep

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Jacques Three

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In A Tale of Two Cities, one of the Three Jacques; constantly touches
his mouth in a hungry manner; he accompanies Defarge to 105 North
Tower during the storming of the Bastille; later, he appears as a jury
member during Darnay’s second French trial

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Jacques Five

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In A Tale of Two Cities, this title refers to the mender of roads

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Lorry, Jarvis

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In A Tale of Two Cities, a kind clerk and “man of business”; works for
Tellson’s Bank; becomes a close family friend of the Manettes

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Manette, Alexandre

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One of the main characters in A Tale of Two Cities; languished in
solitary confinement in the Bastille for 18 years; took up shoemaking
to occupy his mind; also known as the Doctor of Beauvais, the
Shoemaker, the Citizen Doctor, and the Bastille Prisoner

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Manette, Lucie

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In A Tale of Two Cities, the daughter of Dr. Manette and eventually
the wife of Charles Darnay; personifies the forces of kindness and
goodness in the novel; fills the role of the Victorian “angel in the
house”; binds together her family and friends with her metaphorical
“golden thread”; likely based upon Dickens’s mistress, Ellen Ternan

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Miss Pross

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In A Tale of Two Cities, Lucie Manette’s serving woman

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Pross, Solomon

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In A Tale of Two Cities, Miss Pross’s dissolute brother; a spy who
befriends Darnay and then accuses him of treason at the beginning of
the novel; spies first for the aristocrats and then for the revolutionary
regime in France; he goes by the name of John Barsad

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Stryver, C. J.

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Darnay’s pompous London barrister; employs Sydney Carton to do his
legal research; Dickens frequently ridicules this figure through
mocking, sardonic description

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The Vengeance

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In A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge’s shadow; the wife of a
grocer; a vicious woman

Front 44

Triple-deckers

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The Victorian three-volume novel; the three books of A Tale of Two
Cities borrow this format

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Resurrection man

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Slang for grave robber; Jerry Cruncher’s nighttime profession

Front 46

Lettre de cachet

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In France, an aristocratic privilege that permitted nobles to imprison
their enemies without trial; one of these letters likely secured Dr.
Manette’s long term of imprisonment

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Flat character

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A character who evinces an uncomplicated, unchanging personality;
Lucie Manette is an example

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Anaphora

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The literary term for the repetition of the initial words of a succession
of phrases, clauses, or sentences; the opening and closing lines of A
Tale of Two Cities both feature this technique

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Doppelgänger

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The literary term for a double or twin; Sydney Carton fills this
function with respect to Charles Darnay