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
Against a Dark Background Against a Dark Background Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1993. It was his first science fiction novel not to be based or set in the Culture. The main protagonist is Lady Sharrow, a former military pilot and antiquities thief. She lives on Golter, a planet orbiting a star in an isolated planetary system with no nearby galaxies. A cult named the Huhsz is granted permission to assassinate her, believing that their messiah can not be born until the end of her family's female bloodline. She is forced