Inside the story
Meet Doctor Manette
Doctor Manette is a physician who has been wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years. At the story’s outset, his daughter Lucie has helped bring him back to life, but he remains fragile and absorbed in shoemaking, a habit formed during his confinement.
On the page
An elderly man with confused white hair and a raggedly cut white beard, a hollow face, and unnaturally large, exceedingly bright eyes under dark eyebrows; when first found, withered and worn with a parchment-yellow pallor from long confinement, later restored to an intellectual, upright bearing.
