Hard Times

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
1995 | New edition
Wordsworth Editions Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85326-232-6 (ISBN)

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Hard Times - Charles Dickens
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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.
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 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.
Reihe/Serie Wordsworth Classics
Einführung Dinny Thorold
Illustrationen F. Walker, Maurice Greiffenhagen
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Dr Keith Carabine
Verlagsort Herts
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 173 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 1-85326-232-3 / 1853262323
ISBN-13 978-1-85326-232-6 / 9781853262326
Zustand Neuware
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