Characters

Charles Darnay

* a French exile living in England, born Charles Saint Evremonde

Sydney Carton

* resembles Charles Darnay so closely that they might be called "doubles"

Ernest Defarge

* owns, with his wife, a wine shop in the Saint Antoine district of Paris

Madame Therese Defarge

* registers the names of future victims of the Revolution by knitting them in code

Jarvis Lorry

* kindly, elderly bachelor

* faithful and seasoned employee of Tellson's Bank in London

Dr. Alexander Manette

* was imprisoned eighteen years in the Bastille by the Evremonde brothers

* father of Lucie Manette

Lucie Manette

* is seventeen years old when novel opens

* nurses her father back to health

* attracts Darnay, Stryver, and Carton as suitors

Miss Pross

* a large, strong-willed woman, redheaded English spinster, devoted to Lucie

C.J. Stryver

* an ambitious, pompous attorney in London

* relies on Sydney Carton's brains to prepare his legal cases

Marquis Saint Evremonde

* younger of the twin Evremonde brothers: heartlessly cruel

Jerry Cruncher

* hideously ugly

* works as a messenger for Tellson's by day and as a body snatcher by night

John Barsad (Solomon Pross)

* spies for both England and France

* unscrupulous