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 distracted ... that the rivers of the South were encumbered with bodies of the violently drowned by night..." Later a crowd is "swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets ... the Carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away." During the fight with Miss Pross, Madame Defarge clings to her with "more than the hold of a drowning woman". Commentators on the novel have noted the irony that Madame Defarge is killed by her own gun, and perhaps Dickens means by the above quote to suggest that such vicious vengefulness as Madame Defarge's will eventually destroy even its