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About Margaret Atwood

TWO-TIME BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELIST, POET, REBINDER

Margaret Atwood brings her formidable literary perspective and lifelong appreciation of Dickens to this rebinding of A Tale of Two Cities. She first encountered the novel as a fourteen-year-old in Canada, during a period when she “devoured all the major 19th-century novels.” This early immersion in Victorian literature laid the groundwork for her later teaching of the subject at Harvard. Her landmark novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) was adapted into a fifteen-time Emmy Award-winning television series, and its sequel, The Testaments, won the 2019 Booker Prize. Atwood has long been a literary titan, and her words continue to resonate with every generation. Today, her sharp eye is more crucial—and prescient—than ever.

With her penetrating insight into narrative construction, Atwood illuminates how Dickens builds his story through patterns of repetitions with variations. She notes that while her own writing differs from Dickens’ style, she appreciates his masterful sense of timing and structure. Her analysis reveals how carefully Dickens plotted this novel compared to his more improvisational earlier works, showing readers how elements established in the first chapters are designed to pay off in the conclusion.

Novels are always about individuals, even when they're about massive historical events. Oppressive conditions don't just spark revolutions; they also shape the people within them.

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