Book Summary
Book the First contains 6 chapters that introduce the setting, era, and characters. The first book introduces stark contrasts within the fine lines between life and death, rich and poor, and failure and success. We are introduced to Dr. Alexandre Manette, a man who almost literally rises from the dead when he is released from a French prison after 18 years. He is reunited with his close friend Jarvis Lorry and meets his daughter Lucie. He remembers little of his life before prison, and takes up shoemaking, a long fall from his previous occupation of a doctor.