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Charles Dickens - Hard Times - 9781853262326 - KRF0020530
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Hard Times

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Description for Hard Times Paperback. Set in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment, which is the the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. Illustrator(s): Walker, Fiona; Greiffenhagen, Maurice. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. Paperback in good to very good condition. Some shelf wear.

Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster.

Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen.

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby.

However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary ... Read more

Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its ‘sullen socialism’, but 20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both Dickens’ shortest completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Wordsworth Classics
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853262326
SKU
KRF0020530
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

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