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Hard Times

Author
Charles Dickens
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
268 pages
ISBN
9781909438897
Published
15 September 2012
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Industrial town
  • Working-class
  • Affluent
  • Utilitarian education
  • Callous
  • Compassion
  • Circus performer
  • Dehumanizing
  • Industrialization
  • Rationalism

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Description

Coketown, facts, and a circus at the edge of the smoke. Dickens’s Hard Times is Gradgrind’s education versus Sissy Jupe’s heart, Bounderby’s wind, Stephen Blackpool’s luckless truth. Industry as a religion, and the children it fails. Louisa’s marriage, Tom’s rot, a circus child who still knows a horse from a fact. Dickens angry at the factory mind — and still able to make a street breathe smoke and jokes. Louisa Bounderby, Tom’s rot, a circus that still knows a horse.

Author

Charles Dickens is widely considered to be one of the most influential authors of the 19th century. His works, which are frequently used to analyze Victorian literature and culture, exemplify a unique narrative style that provides an in-depth exploration of characters and their relationships with their respective social milieu. His use of realism, satire, and dark humor has been credited as a major influence on many modern authors.

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