A tale of two cities again

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It describes the spirit of the era in which this novel takes placeThis era is the latter part of the 1700s - a time when relations between Britain and France were strained, America declared its independence, and the peasants of France began one of the bloodiest revolutions in historyIn short, it was a time of liberation and a time of terrible violenceDickens describes the two cities at the center of the novel: Paris, a city of extravagance, aristocratic abuses, and other evils that lead to revolution and London, a city rife with crime, capital punishment, and disorderIn both cities, the capabilities of an angry mob were a dangerous thing, to be feared by allThe tale begins on a road between London and Dover (in southern England) in 1775