John McLenan's illustrations for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

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  • Introduction
  • Title page [Dr. Manette released from his cell in the Bastille by an angel carrying keys]
  • The figures of a hose and rider came slowly through the mist
  • [Mr. Lorry and waiter at The Royal George, Dover], Bk 1 ch 4
  • He felt his wrist held closer, and he stopped
  • [The St. Antoine mob scoops up the contents of the broken cask]
  • "A white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes."
  • He scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees — blood."
  • [Door with cobwebs]. Bk 1, ch 6
  • [girl and older man in prison]
  • [girl and older man in prison]
  • [Tellson's Bank], Bk II, ch 1
  • "You're at it again, are you?"
  • [Attorney general speaking in courtBk II, ch 3, B
  • The Prisoner and his double
  • [Sydney Carton, intoxicated and unconscious, after working on legal papers]Bk II, ch 6
  • "The Lion and the Jackal."
  • [(Mr. Lorry with his cane escorted home in the dark by Jerry Cruncher, holding a lantern], Bk II, ch 7
  • "Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry
  • [Woman praying before a large crucifix in a cemetery], Bk II, ch 9
  • "'Killed!' shrieked the man."
  • [bird singing on the ledge before a latticed window, presumably at the chateau of the Marquis]
  • "This from Jacques."
  • [Lucie Manette at the door of the house in Soho]
  • "The tutor's request."
  • [Dr. Manette, left, and Lucie, right, in the house in Soho]
  • Two Promises
  • Jerry Cruncher is chased through a cemetery by an animated coffin
  • "Mr. Cruncher's Friends"
  • [The assassin of the Marquis is hanging above the village fountain]
  • "He described it as if he were there —"
  • [a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness]
  • "And stood with his hand on the back of his wife's chair"
  • [Lucie and Dr. Manette at the door of their house in Soho]
  • "'See!' said the Doctor of Beauvaise, etc. "
  • [Charles Darnay and Lucie embrace]
  • "The Auto da Fe"
  • [Miss Pross and little Lucie in the garden]
  • "In the name of all the angels or devils, work!"
  • [The St. Antoine mob carries the head of Foulon through the streets on a pike]
  • "He took out a blackened pipe."
  • [Charles Darnay, on horseback, presumably going to aid Gabelle in France]
  • "I know the fellow."
  • [Charles Darnay in solitary confinement in La Force)]
  • [Lucie and her daughter]
  • "But such awful workers, and such awful work!"
  • [Father and child wearing Jacobin caps play with miniature guillotine]
  • "I call myself the Samson of the fire-wood guillotine"
  • [The mob]
  • The Citizen Evrémond, called Darnay
  • [Armed Jacobins in the wineshop]
  • "So you put him in his coffin."
  • [Mr. Lorry and Jerry Cruncher, positioned as they are as chapter begins]
  • "The Citizen Evrémonde, called Darnay"
  • [Dr. Manette and the St. Evrémonde brothers at their coach]
  • "I mark this cross of blood upon him, as a sign that I do it"
  • [In Mr. Lorry's room in Paris]
  • "I swear to you, like Evrémonde!"
  • [In Darnay's cell in La Force]
  • "Write exactly as I speak"
  • [A Jacobin holds the severed head of a victim]
  • "Like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground"
  • [Three Jacobin women knit before the guillotine]
  • "The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, etc."
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