A Tale of Two Cities Paris is undergoing a radical shift like Los Angeles was in the late 1960s. American rapper J. Cole recorded the track "A Tale of 2 Citiez" on his album "2014 Forest Hills Drive". He speaks of inner city struggles and the idea that anyone can be pushed to the limit of murder or other terrible acts. A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the
A Tale of Two Cities which (at least at the beginning of the book) is shown to be nearly as unjust as France; Ruth Glancy has argued that Dickens portrays France and England as nearly equivalent at the beginning of the novel, but that as the novel progresses, England comes to look better and better, climaxing in Miss Pross's pro-Britain speech at the end of the novel. But his warning is addressed not to the British lower classes, but to the aristocracy. He repeatedly uses the metaphor of sowing and reaping; if the aristocracy continues to plant the seeds of a revolution through behaving unjustly,