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9780192817853
Hard Times
by Dickens, Charles, Schlicke, Paul
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- Condition: Good
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- Comments: Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Cover is clean and worn with a crease down front and wear to extremities. Glued binding tight. Pages, clean, no markings, toned. No other work of Dickens presents such an unrelentless indictment against the greed of the Victorian industrial society and its utilitarian philosophy. The Gradgrind model day school is so bleak it is hard to read about. 301 pages. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. 1989, Oxford University Press.
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- ISBN-13: 9780192817853
- ISBN: 019281785X
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught "nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophy-his own daughter's terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism.Dickens, Charles is the author of 'Hard Times' with ISBN 9780192817853 and ISBN 019281785X.
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