![]() ![]() Confused and afraid, he recognises none of the friendly faces around him and finds comfort only in obsessively pursuing his prison occupation of making shoes. The long imprisonment has taken a heavy toll on Manette and the sudden change is especially frightening to him. ![]() ![]() He is being cared for by a former servant, Defarge, who now owns a wine shop in Paris. When she is taken to him, she finds him much changed. The news is shocking to his adult daughter, Lucie, who had long thought him dead. But, in the hands of a master, it becomes a classic.Īfter 18 years imprisoned in the Bastille, the infamous Paris fortress converted to a prison, Alexandre Manette, a former physician, has been released. It is picaresque and disjointed it is a ‘tale’ but a long one it is historical fiction but avoids a lot of the history and, given its source material, runs several risks of unoriginality. A Tale of Two Cities is one of the most widely read novels in history, yet it has a number of qualities at odds with that. ![]()
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