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Hard Times

By Charles Dickens

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Hard Times

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The shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters-Mr. Gradgrind, whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool, an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe, a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life-all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion, and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2012-01-10
Publication Date:
2012-01-10
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307947203
ISBN13:
9780307947208
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
293 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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