There were two great writers who both expresses their talent as they wrote their books. Charles Dickens who wrote A Tale of Two Cities is similarly compared to Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. One can compare their novels by society's pressure of aristocracy the novels describe and the irony each author uses as the stories go on. Each novel has characters that experience life in many different ways, because each novel describes these social pressures, irony and the fates of the characters, can be compared. In A Tale of Two Cities one ....