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Titolo: Tale of two cities

Salve a tutti!
Non ho trovato un NG specifico sulla letteratura inglese, perciò chiedo qui.
Mi serve, con una certa urgenza, un riassunto del romanzo di Dickens 
"tal of two cities" (spero si scriva così :-S )
Qualcuno saprebbe darmi qualche indicazione su dove trovarlo? Basta 
anche una semplice trama.
grazie 1000 a chi risponderà
ciaociao
marco

marco ha scritto:
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here is a link that might be useful:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/twocities/
grelobe

 "tale of two cities" 
Ma non vale la pena. Saranno poco meno di cinquecento pagine, in quattro o
cinque giorni dovresti farcela: al limite, se sei proprio sei nei guai,
puoi finirlo in italiano. 
E poi è un bel romanzo, anche se non fra i miei preferiti di Dickens.

 E poi è un bel romanzo, anche se non fra i miei preferiti di Dickens.
Serve per la mia ragazza (ha un esame) e non fa proprio in tempo a 
leggerlo... Magari lo leggerà dopo l'esame, nel frattempo servirebbe la 
trama. Tu l'hai letto? Di che parla?
grazie
marco

 Di che parla?
ma dai, la trama di un romanzo č la sua parte meno importante. Non essere
cosě rozzo.

 così rozzo.
Senti, ti ho chiesto qual è la trama perchè a me serve sapere qual è la 
trama. Se non sei capace di raccontare di che parla un libro che hai 
letto questo è un tuo problema, forse la tua estrema raffinatezza nel 
cogliere tutti gli aspetti di questo capolavoro ti ha fatto perdere il 
dono della sintesi...

 puoi finirlo in italiano. 
Ma non capisci! Hai presente "non ho voglia di muovere un solo dito"?
Ciao, FB

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The year is 1775, and social ills plague both France and England. Jerry
Cruncher, an odd-job-man who works for Tellson's Bank, stops the
Dover mail-coach with an urgent message for Jarvis Lorry. The message
instructs Lorry to wait at Dover for a young woman, and Lorry responds
with the cryptic words, "Recalled to Life." At Dover, Lorry is met
by Lucie Manette, a young orphan whose father, a once-eminent doctor
whom she supposed dead, has been discovered in France. Lorry escorts
Lucie to Paris, where they meet Defarge, a former servant of Doctor
Manette, who has kept Manette safe in a garret. Driven mad by eighteen
years in the Bastille, Manette spends all of his time making shoes, a
hobby he learned while in prison. Lorry assures Lucie that her love and
devotion can recall her father to life, and indeed they do.
The year is now 1780. Charles Darnay stands accused of treason against
the English crown. A bombastic lawyer named Stryver pleads Darnay's
case, but it is not until his drunk, good-for-nothing colleague, Sydney
Carton, assists him that the court acquits Darnay. Carton clinches his
argument by pointing out that he himself bears an uncanny resemblance
to the defendant, which undermines the prosecution's case for
unmistakably identifying Darnay as the spy the authorities spotted.
Lucie and Doctor Manette watched the court proceedings, and that night,
Carton escorts Darnay to a tavern and asks how it feels to receive the
sympathy of a woman like Lucie. Carton despises and resents Darnay
because he reminds him of all that he himself has given up and might
have been.
In France, the cruel Marquis Evrémonde runs down a plebian child with
his carriage. Manifesting an attitude typical of the aristocracy in
regard to the poor at that time, the Marquis shows no regret, but
instead curses the peasantry and hurries home to his chateau, where he
awaits the arrival of his nephew, Darnay, from England. Arriving later
that night, Darnay curses his uncle and the French aristocracy for its
abominable treatment of the people. He renounces his identity as an
Evrémonde and announces his intention to return to England. That
night, the Marquis is murdered; the murderer has left a note signed
with the nickname adopted by French revolutionaries: "Jacques."
A year passes, and Darnay asks Manette for permission to marry Lucie.
He says that, if Lucie accepts, he will reveal his true identity to
Manette. Carton, meanwhile, also pledges his love to Lucie, admitting
that, though his life is worthless, she has helped him dream of a
better, more valuable existence. On the streets of London, Jerry
Cruncher gets swept up in the funeral procession for a spy named Roger
Cly. Later that night, he demonstrates his talents as a
"Resurrection-Man," sneaking into the cemetery to steal and sell
Cly's body. In Paris, meanwhile, another English spy known as John
Barsad drops into Defarge's wine-shop. Barsad hopes to turn up
evidence concerning the mounting revolution, which is still in its
covert stages. Madame Defarge sits in the shop knitting a secret
registry of those whom the revolution seeks to execute. Back in London,
Darnay, on the morning of his wedding, keeps his promise to Manette; he
reveals his true identity and, that night, Manette relapses into his
old prison habit of making shoes. After nine days, Manette regains his
presence of mind, and soon joins the newlyweds on their honeymoon. Upon
Darnay's return, Carton pays him a visit and asks for his friendship.
Darnay assures Carton that he is always welcome in their home
The year is now 1789. The peasants in Paris storm the Bastille and the
French Revolution begins. The revolutionaries murder aristocrats in the
streets, and Gabelle, a man charged with the maintenance of the
Evrémonde estate, is imprisoned. Three years later, he writes to
Darnay, asking to be rescued. Despite the threat of great danger to his
person, Darnay departs immediately for France.
As soon as Darnay arrives in Paris, the French revolutionaries arrest
him as an emigrant. Lucie and Manette make their way to Paris in hopes
of saving him. Darnay remains in prison for a year and three months
before receiving a trial. In order to help free him, Manette uses his
considerable influence with the revolutionaries, who sympathize with
him for having served time in the Bastille. Darnay receives an
acquittal, but that same night he is arrested again. The charges, this
time, come from Defarge and his vengeful wife. Carton arrives in Paris
with a plan to rescue Darnay and obtains the help of John Barsad, who
turns out to be Solomon Pross, the long-lost brother of Miss Pross,
Lucie's loyal servant.
At Darnay's trial, Defarge produces a letter that he discovered in
Manette's old jail cell in the Bastille. The letter explains the
cause of Manette's imprisonment. Years ago, the brothers Evrémonde
(Darnay's father and uncle) enlisted Manette's medical assistance.
They asked him to tend to a woman, whom one of the brothers had raped,
and her brother, whom the same brother had stabbed fatally. Fearing
that Manette might report their misdeeds, the Evrémondes had him
arrested. Upon hearing this story, the jury condemns Darnay for the
crimes of his ancestors and sentences him to die within twenty-four
hours. That night, at the Defarge's wine-shop, Carton overhears
Madame Defarge plotting to have Lucie and her daughter (also Darnay's
daughter) executed as well; Madame Defarge, it turns out, is the
surviving sibling of the man and woman killed by the Evrémondes.
Carton arranges for the Manettes' immediate departure from France. He
then visits Darnay in prison, tricks him into changing clothes with
him, and, after dictating a letter of explanation, drugs his friend
unconscious. Barsad carries Darnay, now disguised as Carton, to an
awaiting coach, while Carton, disguised as Darnay, awaits execution. As
Darnay, Lucie, their child, and Dr. Manette speed away from Paris,
Madame Defarge arrives at Lucie's apartment, hoping to arrest her.
There she finds the supremely protective Miss Pross. A scuffle ensues,
and Madame Defarge dies by the bullet of her own gun. Sydney Carton
meets his death at the guillotine, and the narrator confidently asserts
that Carton dies with the knowledge that he has finally imbued his life
with meaning.

 Ma non capisci! Hai presente "non ho voglia di muovere un solo dito"?
Ecco un altro simpatico saputello! Ma che cavolo ne sai tu del motivo 
per cui mi serve e di quanta voglia ho io di muovere le mie dita?

grelobe ha scritto:
Grazie mille, per fortuna ho trovato almeno una persona gentile!
grazie ancora
marco

 leggerlo... (..)
Secondo me chi non ha il tempo per preparare un esame, non
dovrebbe avere neanche il tempo per sostenerlo. 

 cui mi serve
Lo hai scritto tu stesso in un messaggio precedente?
[...] 

 dovrebbe avere neanche il tempo per sostenerlo. 
E siamo a tre luminari!

 Ma non capisci! Hai presente "non ho voglia di muovere un solo dito"?
ho capito, ho capito... :-)

 E siamo a tre luminari!
a fronte di una ragazza sfaticata e disonesta :-( 

 a fronte di una ragazza sfaticata e disonesta :-( 
Bravo Gennaro, tu sei che sei un uomo tutto d'un pezzo!

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
.....
......
"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."
Joe from Massachusetts

 of two cities" (spero si scriva così :-S )
Racconto di due città (A tale of two cities, 1859) è un romanzo storico e
d'ambiente: le due città del titolo sono Parigi e Londra.
Nel 1864-1865 è pubblicato Il nostro comune amico (Our mutual friend). E' il
romanzo più complesso e disperato di Dickens. Le ultime illusioni sulla
missione progressiva della borghesia sono cadute. Anche il proletariato, per
elevarsi alla condizione della borghesia, ne ha assunto le caratteristiche
di ipocrisia e durezza. La storia principale è quella di John Harmon che,
mentre si trova all'estero, apprende di aver ereditato una grossa somma dal
padre imprenditore, ma a condizione che sposi Bella Wilfer, una donna che
lui non conosce neppure. Sulla nave che lo riporta in patria, confida a un
ufficiale di bordo la sua intenzione di assumere una falsa identità per
conoscere la futura sposa. L'ufficiale lo attira in una capanna sul Tamigi e
tenta di assassinarlo per derubarlo. Rimane ucciso, il suo cadavere
ripescato dal fiume viene identificato con quello di Harmon. Harmon ne
approfitta per realizzare il suo piano. Si fa assumere con il nome di
Rokesmith come segretario del signor Boffin, ex sovrintendente del padre,
che ha ricevuto tutta l'eredità del vecchio Harmon (a causa della notizia
della presunta morte di John). Rokesmith incontra Bella, figlia adottiva di
Boffin. E' una ragazza frivola ma molto attraente, e Harmon- Rokesmith se ne
innamora. I Boffin scoprono la vera identità di Rokesmith, decidono di
mettere alla prova Bella: fingendo durezza di cuore e avarizia, scacciano il
giovane. Bella apre gli occhi: capisce quanto male possano fare le
ricchezze, e quanto ricco di meriti sia il suo corteggiatore. Lo raggiunge e
lo sposa. La cupa atmosfera del romanzo, dominata da colpe e delitti
commessi per denaro, è accentuata dalla vicenda che si intreccia con quella
di Harmon fin dall'inizio. Quella del giovane avvocato Eugene Wrayburn
innamorato di Lizzy Hexam, figlia di un ripescatore di relitti e di cadaveri
lungo il Tamigi. Anche Eugene è vittima di un tentativo di assassinio, a
opera di un suo rivale in amore. E' Lizzy che lo salva, ferito quasi
mortalmente. Poco dopo i due si sposano, e vanno a vivere nella casa di
Harmon e Bella.
che cosa non si farebbe per una ragazza : )

scusami, non era quello ,è questo:
Racconto di due città (A tale of two cities, 1859) è un romanzo storico e 
d'ambiente: le due città del titolo sono Paris e London. Nel 1864-1865 è 
pubblicato Il nostro comune amico (Our mutual friend). E' il romanzo più 
complesso e disperato di Dickens. Le ultime illusioni sulla missione 
progressiva della borghesia sono cadute. Anche il proletariato, per elevarsi 
alla condizione della borghesia, ne ha assunto le caratteristiche di 
ipocrisia e durezza. La storia principale è quella di John Harmon che, 
mentre si trova all'estero, apprende di aver ereditato una grossa somma dal 
padre imprenditore, ma a condizione che sposi Bella Wilfer, una donna che 
lui non conosce neppure. Sulla nave che lo riporta in patria, confida a un 
ufficiale di bordo la sua intenzione di as sumere una falsa identità per 
conoscere la futura sposa. L'ufficiale lo attira in una capanna sul Tamigi e 
tenta di assassinarlo per derubarlo. Rimane ucciso, il suo cadavere 
ripescato dal fiume viene identificato con quello di Harmon. Harmon ne 
approfitta per realizzare il suo piano. Si fa assumere con il nome di 
Rokesmith come segretario del signor Boffin, ex sovrintendente del padre, 
che ha ricevuto tutta l'eredità del vecchio Harmon (a causa della notizia 
della presunta morte di John). Rokesmith incontra Bella, figlia adottiva di 
Boffin. E' una ragazza frivola ma molto attraente, e Harmon- Rokesmith se ne 
innamora. I Boffin scoprono la vera identità di Rokespith, decidono di 
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scuasami di nuovo , non so dove ho la testa, volevo trovarti qualcosa in
italiano e per la fretta ho postato un doppione
grelobe ti ha già mandato una sintesi in inglese
ti aggiungo questa
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," Dickens writes in the
opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities as he paints a picture of life in
England and France. The year is late 1775, and Jarvis Lorry travels from
London to Paris on a secret mission for his employer, Tellson's Bank.
Joining him on his journey is Lucie Manette, a 17-year-old woman who is
stunned to learn that her father, Doctor Alexandre Manette, is alive and has
recently been released after having been secretly imprisoned in Paris for 18
years.
When Mr. Lorry and Lucie arrive in Paris, they find the Doctor's former
servant, Ernest Defarge, caring for the him. Defarge now runs a wine-shop
with his wife in the poverty-stricken quarter of Saint Antoine. Defarge
takes Mr. Lorry and Lucie to the garret room where he is keeping Doctor
Manette, warning them that the Doctor's years in prison have greatly changed
him. Thin and pale, Doctor Manette sits at a shoemaker's bench intently
making shoes. He barely responds to questions from Defarge and Mr. Lorry,
but when Lucie approaches him, he remembers his wife and begins to weep.
Lucie comforts him, and that night Mr. Lorry and Lucie take him to England.
Five years later, the porter for Tellson's Bank, Jerry Cruncher, takes a
message to Mr. Lorry who is at a courthouse. Mr. Lorry has been called as a
witness for the trial of Charles Darnay, a Frenchman accused of being a spy
for France and the United States. Also at the trial are Doctor Manette and
Lucie, who are witnesses for the prosecution. Doctor Manette has fully
recovered and has formed a close bond with his daughter.
If found guilty of treason, Darnay will suffer a gruesome death, and the
testimony of an acquaintance, John Barsad, and a former servant, Roger Cly,
seems sure to result in a guilty verdict. Questions from Darnay's attorney,
Mr. Stryver, indicate that Cly and Barsad are the real spies, but the
turning point in the trial occurs when Sydney Carton, Stryver's assistant,
points out that Carton and Darnay look alike enough to be doubles. This
revelation throws into doubt a positive identification of Darnay as the
person seen passing secrets, and the court acquits Darnay.
After the trial, Darnay, Carton, and Stryver begin spending time at the
Manette home, obviously attracted to Lucie's beauty and kind nature. Stryver
decides to propose to her, but is dissuaded by Mr. Lorry. Carton confesses
his love to Lucie, but does not propose, knowing that his drunken and
apathetic way of life is not worthy of her. However, he vows that he would
gladly give his life to save a life she loved, and Lucie is moved by his
sincerity and devotion. Eventually, it is Darnay whose love Lucie returns,
and the two marry with Doctor Manette's uneasy blessing. While the couple is
on their honeymoon, the Doctor suffers a nine-day relapse of his mental
incapacity and believes he is making shoes in prison again.
Meanwhile, the situation in France grows worse. Signs of unrest become
evident when Darnay's cruel and unfeeling uncle, the Marquis St. Evrémonde,
is murdered in his bed after running down a child with his carriage in the
Paris streets. Although Darnay inherits the title and the estate, he has
renounced all ties to his brutal family and works instead in England as a
tutor of French language and literature.
The revolution erupts with full force in July 1789 with the storming of the
Bastille. The Defarges are at the center of the revolutionary movement and
lead the people in a wave of violence and destruction.By 1792, the
revolutionaries have taken control of France and are imprisoning and killing
anyone they view as an enemy of the state. Darnay receives a letter from the
Evrémonde steward, who has been captured and who begs Darnay to come to
France to save him. Feeling a sense of duty to his servant and not fully
realizing the danger awaiting him, Darnay departs for France. Once he
reaches Paris, though, revolutionaries take him to La Force prison "in
secret," with no way of contacting anyone and with little hope of a trial.
Doctor Manette, Lucie, and Lucie's daughter soon arrive in Paris and join
Mr. Lorry who is at Tellson's Paris office. Doctor Manette's status as a
former prisoner of the Bastille gives him a heroic status with the
revolutionaries and enables him to find out what has happened to his
son-in-law. He uses his influence to get a trial for Darnay, and Doctor
Manette's powerful testimony at the trial frees his son-in-law. Hours after
being reunited with his wife and daughter, however, the revolutionaries
again arrest Darnay, based on the accusations of the Defarges.
The next day, Darnay is tried again. This time, the Defarges produce a
letter written years earlier by Doctor Manette in prison condemning all
Evrémondes for the murder of Madame Defarge's family and for imprisoning the
Doctor. Based on this evidence, the court sentences Darnay to death and
Doctor Manette, devastated by what has happened, reverts to his prior state
of dementia.
Unknown to the Manette and Darnay family, Sydney Carton has arrived in Paris
and learns of Darnay's fate. He also hears of a plot contrived to send Lucie
and her daughter to the guillotine. Determined to save their lives, he
enlists the help of a prison spy to enter the prison where the
revolutionaries are holding Darnay. He enters Darnay's cell, changes clothes
with him, drugs him, and has Darnay taken out of the prison in his place. No
one questions either man's identity because of the similarities in their
features. As Mr. Lorry shepherds Doctor Manette, Darnay, Lucie, and young
Lucie out of France, Carton goes to the guillotine, strengthened and
comforted by the knowledge that his sacrifice has saved the woman he loves
and her family.

 Racconto di due città (A tale of two cities, 1859) è un romanzo storico
Ciao, avrei dovuto studiare il "Trattato della Fuga" di André Gedalge ma
non ho proprio avuto tempo... per caso non me potresti fare qui un sunto
brevissimo?
Grazie!!!!!

 brevissimo?
Uuuuh, ma quanto sei simpatico. Mi stai facendo sbellicare!!!

 Uuuuh, ma quanto sei simpatico. Mi stai facendo sbellicare!!!
in aggiunta a tutto, pensi di essere l'unico in diritto di chiedere agli
altri di lavorare al posto suo?

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Perņ, Squash, mi hai un po' deluso; mi aspettavo almeno uno dei tuoi
lapidari riassunti in 5 parole.
Pigro!
-- 
Ciao,
Anna

 lapidari riassunti in 5 parole.
Martini, non so perché ma tu vuoi lusingarmi dicendo che ti deludo: visto
che è ovvio che uno come me non può ingenerare alcuna aspettativa, dunque
cagionare alcuna delusione.
 But since i never give up a challenge, much less a a tease from some
broad, here it is, not in 5 words though:
Charles (charles? charles, I think. James, maybe) loves Lucy. Asshole
Richmond  sets him up on a spy beef. He manages to escape but ends up in
deeper shit in Paris, just in time for that whole 1789 shebang. There he
manages to put his dumb ass at stake again, but somehow saves it once
more.
Right, honey?
ciau

 ciau
ciau
e... ma sì, grazie ;)
-- 
Anna

 Grazie!!!!!
prego 

Gennaro ha scritto:
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Hai ragione, ma se l'esame è una barzelletta e si può superare con un
bignamino, di chi è la colpa? Non certo della ragazza di Marco, I
suppose.  :)
Non è la prima volta che vedo richieste di questo tipo: o chi le fa
non sa cosa l'aspetta e sarà bocciato, oppure leggere il riassunto al
posto del romanzo è sufficiente a superare in qualche modo l'esame.

 "tal of two cities" (spero si scriva così :-S )
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