It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way
In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
——A Tale of Two Cities
故事发生在双城记大约一个世纪之后，法国大革命的动乱早已过去，第一次工业革命也已经过去将近半个世纪，工人的悲惨境遇早已被无数次的作品呈现，马克思对于早期资…
