Book Three, Chapter Five of “A Tale of Two Cities:” THE WOOD-SAWYER

Dickens’s most atypical novel grows still darker, even for him, in this terrifying chapter from A Tale of Two Cities.  Lucy travels into the chaotic streets of revolutionary Paris to try to catch a glimpse of her beloved Charles in the Bastille.  She runs into a wood-sawyer, enraptured by La Guillotine and bent on revenge against aristocrats. Will Charles survive the night, or the chapter? It is announced herein that his trial begins tomorrow.