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Чарльз Диккенс. A Tale of Two Cities
History of Collins
Life & Times. About the Author
The Victorian Era
PREFACE
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 The Period
CHAPTER 2 The Mail
CHAPTER 3 The Night Shadows
CHAPTER 4 The Preparation
CHAPTER 5 The Wine-shop
CHAPTER 6 The Shoemaker
CHAPTER 1 Five Years Later
CHAPTER 2 A Sight
CHAPTER 3 A Disappointment
CHAPTER 4 Congratulatory
CHAPTER 5 The Jackal
CHAPTER 6 Hundreds of People
CHAPTER 7 Monseigneur in Town
CHAPTER 8 Monseigneur in the Country
CHAPTER 9 The Gorgon’s Head
CHAPTER 10 Two Promises
CHAPTER 11 A Companion Picture
CHAPTER 12 The Fellow of Delicacy
CHAPTER 13 The Fellow of No Delicacy
CHAPTER 14 The Honest Tradesman
CHAPTER 15 Knitting
CHAPTER 16 Still Knitting
CHAPTER 17 One Night
CHAPTER 18 Nine Days
CHAPTER 19 An Opinion
CHAPTER 20 A Plea
CHAPTER 21 Echoing Footsteps
CHAPTER 22 The Sea Still Rises
CHAPTER 23 Fire Rises
CHAPTER 24 Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
CHAPTER 1 In Secret
CHAPTER 2 The Grindstone
CHAPTER 3 The Shadow
CHAPTER 4 Calm in Storm
CHAPTER 5 The Wood-sawyer
CHAPTER 6 Triumph
CHAPTER 7 A Knock at the Door
CHAPTER 8 A Hand at Cards
CHAPTER 9 The Game Made
CHAPTER 10 The Substance of the Shadow
CHAPTER 11 Dusk
CHAPTER 12 Darkness
CHAPTER 13 Fifty-two
CHAPTER 14 The Knitting Done
CHAPTER 15 The Footsteps Die Out for Ever
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
Copyright
About the Publisher
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In 1819, Millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner, however it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
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