Bedtime Stories, “A Tale of Two Cities”, Chapters 5 and 6

The scramble for the leaking wine that opens “The Wine-shop” remains one of the most remembered passages in the novel. Although the French Revolution will not erupt for another fourteen years, the broken wine cask and passages on hunger conveys the suffering and rage that will lead the French peasantry to revolt.  In chapter 6, Lucy rescues Manette from the Shoemaker and prepares to depart for England.