The year is 1775, Mr. Jarvis Lorry is traveling to Dover to meet Lucie Manette. Mr. Lorry tells Lucy that despite her belief, she is not an orphan as everyone has always told her. Lorry tells hers that he will travel with her to Paris to meet her father. Doctor Manette, Lucie's father who has just been released from prison, is housed in the Defarges' wine-shop and has lost his reason, but he starts to regain it when he meets his daughter and is transported back to London.
Five years later, Charles Darnay is tried in London on a charge of treason for providing English secrets to the French and Americans during the outbreak of the American Revolution. The of Mr. Sydney Carton who looks remarkably like him, precludes any positive identification and allows Darnay's acquittal. Darnay, Mr. Carton, and Mr. Stryver all fall in love with Lucie Manette, who was a tearful, unwilling witness for the prosecution. Although they all make an attempt to get her, she favors Charles Darnay and......
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