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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Illustrated by: Fiona Walker, Maurice Greiffenhagen
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Format: Paperback / softback 272 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Edition: New ed
ISBN: 9781853262326
Published: 5 Jan 1995
Classifications: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Weight: 176g
Dimensions: 197 x 126 x 15 (mm)
Pub. Country: United Kingdom
Description
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.
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| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 191571321 |
| Start Time | Sun 26 Apr 2020 07:08:02 (EDT) |
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