Preview: Part III, Chapter 10
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Start: I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris
Stop after: Back to the Conciergerie, and Death within four-and-twenty hours!
The court hears the manuscript Doctor Manette hid during his tenth year in the Bastille. Written while his memory was exact but his hope nearly gone, it records how he became entangled with the Evrémonde family.
The document is both testimony and a voice from another time. Manette’s limited direct knowledge and moral choices meet a revolutionary audience that converts a private record of aristocratic abuse into judgment.