About book :
Mr. Jarvis Lorry and Miss Lucie Manette travel to Saint Antoine, a suburb of Paris, and meet Monsieur Defarge and Madame Defarge. The Defarges operate a wine shop they use to lead a clandestine band of revolutionaries; they refer to each other by the codename "Jacques," which Charles Dickens drew from the Jacobins, an actual French revolutionary group.
Monsieur Defarge was Doctor Manette's servant before his
incarceration, and now has care of him, and he takes them to see the
doctor. Because of his long imprisonment, Doctor Manette entered a form
of psychosis and has become obsessed
with making shoes, a trade he had learned while in prison. At first, he
does not recognise his daughter; but he eventually compares her long
golden hair with her mother's, a strand of which which he found on his
sleeve when he was incarcerated and kept, and notices their identical
blue eye colour. Mr. Lorry and Miss Manette then take him back to
England.
A Tale of Two Cities is one of only two works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens (Barnaby Rudge
is the other one). It has fewer characters and sub-plots than a typical
Charles Dickens novel. The author's primary historical source was The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle: Charles Dickens wrote in his Preface to Tale that "no one can hope to add anything to the philosophy of Mr. Carlyle's wonderful book".
source : WIKIPEDIADOWNLOAD :: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
