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Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1995)

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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 citizens of Coketown. 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. AUTHOR: When 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club', his first novel, was published, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was just twenty-four. Published, like most of his books, in weekly instalments, it started him on a path to fame, wealth and international acclaim. Widely considered to be a literary genius second only to Shakespeare, Dickens' works, such as 'Great Expectations' and 'A Christmas Carol', remain as popular as ever.

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Wordsworth Editions LTD
ISBN-13
9781853262326
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89089132

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Book Title
Hard Times
Illustrator
Maurice Greiffenhagen, F. Walker
Author
Charles Dickens
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1995
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
173g

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Charles Dickens
Series Title
Wordsworth Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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