There Charles Darnay is being tried for treason, accused of being a spy for the French. Jerry is sent with a message for Lorry at the Old Bailey (criminal court). Jerry Cruncher, who runs errands for Tellson's, is prayed for by his wife- his son emulates him. Tellson's bank is like the country of England, old-fashioned and resistant to change or reform. They get a carriage and Defarge assists them in promptly departing France. Lucie tenderly comforts him- he recognizes her yellow hair (from her mother's?). He has a momentary flash of recognition of his old friend Lorry.
He knows himself only as prisoner 105, North Tower. They meet Manette, who is compulsively working as a shoemaker in the garret. The wine-shop keeper, Ernest Defarge (a former servant of Manette), leads Lorry and Lucie to the garret where he has locked in Dr. Thérèse Defarge knitting and the three "Jacques" (pseudonyms recalling the 14C Jacquerie peasant rebellion). Antoine area of Paris lap up wine spilled (like blood) in the street- misery abounds. She faints and is tended by the robust Miss Pross. He informs her that her father is not dead after all, but has been imprisoned in France under a lettre de cachet and under another name. Manette, Miss Lucie Manette, joins Lorry. Alexandre Manette) imprisoned for 18 years as if buried, now to be exhumed. Lorry rides and daydreams, first of the bank, then of the man (Dr. Chapter 3Īuthor considers the mysteries each human harbors. He receives a message, "Wait at Dover for Mam'selle" from the French branch of the bank, delivered by their odd jobs man Jerry Cruncher, and sends back the message "Recalled to life". Jarvis Lorry, a 60 y/o banker with Tellson's Bank, is a passenger on the London to Dover mail coach. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." Chapter 2 Novel begins in 1775, describing the striking contrasts and abuses extant in France and crime is rampant in England. House, Great Expectations, etc.- few colorful characters and less humor, shorter, more melodramatic.
Overall Impression: This is a less "Dickensian" novel than Bleak Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, as Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 1998Īcknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the Everyman 1996Įdition.
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