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Era il migliore dei tempi, era il peggiore dei tempi...' Intrecciando vividamente un dramma storico epico con una tragedia personale, l'avvincente romanzo di Dickens descrive le vite di due uomini molto diversi, Charles Darnay, un aristocratico francese in esilio, e Sydney Carton, un avvocato inglese poco raccomandabile ma brillante, mentre si ritrovano invischiati nel loro amore per Lucie Manette, la figlia di un prigioniero politico. Dalle tranquille strade di Londra, vengono trascinati contro la loro volontà nelle strade vendicative e insanguinate di Parigi al culmine del Regno del Terrore, e presto cadono sotto l'ombra letale di La Guillotine. A cura di Richard Maxwell con un'introduzione e note

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

Richard Maxwell teaches in the Comparative Literature & English departments at Yale.