Darnay is on trial for treasonous activities. Manette are called to testify in a trial involving Charles Darnay, who has also been living in London and working as a teacher of languages. Manette and Lucie settle in London, where they live in the company of their maid Miss Prosser, who is devoted to them. On the boat crossing the Channel, they meet Charles Darnay.ĭr. Manette and his daughter and then the two travel to England. A happy reunion takes place between the elderly Dr.

The two had never met because of mysterious circumstances which had forced Lucie's mother to flee to England around the time that Dr. Jarvis Lorry, agent of the firm Tellson & Co., brings Lucie Manette over to Paris from England to meet her father, Dr. Madame DeFarge spends every day knitting a scarf bearing strange symbols, which are later revealed to symbolize the names of hated members of the French nobility who are to be executed once the Revolution begins. Manette is living in the attic of a house owned by Madame and Monsieur DeFarge. Manette has just been freed from the Bastille where he has been held unjustly by the monarchist government for the last 18 years. The novel begins a few years prior to the start of the French Revolution. Monsieur DeFarge - husband of Madame DeFarge and also a French revolutionary.Ī Tale of Two Cities: Lucie Refuses Sydney Carton's Offer of Marriage.

Madame Defarge - a French revolutionary.Sydney Carton - a lawyer's clerk who looks very similar to Charles Darnay.He is sentenced to die at the guillotine by French revolutionaries during the Terror. Evremonde and later the husband of Lucie Manette. Jarvis Lorry - an agent of the English banking firm of Tellson & Co., which has a branch in Paris.She is the love interest of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay. Manette and the chief heroine of the book. Manette - a former prisoner of the Bastille under the monarchy before the French Revolution The principal characters of the book are: The title of the book refers to London and England, the two cities.Ī Tale of Two Cities was first published in 1859 and is considered one of Dickens' greatest commercial and critical successes. The plot unfolds in France and England and is a melodramatic story, full of unlikely plot twists, involving many interrelated characters on both sides of the English channel during this very tumultuous period in history. An Illustration from A Tale of Two CitiesĪ Tale of Two Cities is an historical romance by Charles Dickens set during the time of the French Revolution.

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