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Hard Times

Meet the Editors

Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English at both Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. A biographer and literary scholar, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Gore Vidal: A Biography, Henry James, The Imagination of Genius, and Charles Dickens: A Biography. His Thomas Carlyle, A Biography was nominated for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and for the Pulitzer Prize.

Sylvère Monod is Professor of English Emeritus at the Sorbonne. He is the author of Dickens the Novelist, Histoire de la literature anglaise de Victoria ý Elizabeth II, Martin Chuzzlewit: A Critical Study, and the novel Madame Homais. He is editor, with George Ford, of the Norton Critical Edition of Bleak House, and of numerous French editions of works by Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and the Brontës.