“And Marx was silent in Darwin’s garden” can be placed on a par with the works of Florian Illies – “1913. Summer of a Century”, “Love in the Age of Hate”. This book is about the relationship between man, culture and era, about two geniuses who forever changed the life of mankind. Filled with historical, scientific and social facts, the novel reveals the lives of Marx and Darwin from a new perspective. The reader will become acquainted not only with their philosophy and discoveries, but will recognize them as people with their own weaknesses and shortcomings. England, 1881. Charles Darwin and Karl Marx live just a few miles apart. Both changed the world forever with their works: one about evolution, the other about revolution. They both know it and are proud of it. And yet they suffer from insomnia and are melancholic. One evening they meet for the first time for dinner. Their discussion quickly turns to God and justice, a quarrel inevitably breaks out, and the evening ends in scandal. But did this meeting really happen?