Hard Times

Dickens, Charles

ISBN 10: 0679413235 / ISBN 13: 9780679413233

Edité par Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992

A propos de cet article

Octavo. Maroon cloth covered boards and spine with a black letterbox and shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a light ding in the lower edge of the front board - 1" long, but pretty shallow. White endpapers with Everyman's Library logo. BInding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 299 pages. No dust jacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur 006751

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Hard Times
• Éditeur: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679413235
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679413233
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: Reprint.
• État de l'article: NF
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature & Fiction

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Synopsis

“Facts alone are wanted in life.” The children at Mr. Gradgrind’s school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. The effects of Gradgrind’s teaching on his own children, Tom and Louisa, are particularly profound and leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart. Luckily for them, they have a friend in Sissy Jupe, the child of a circus clown, who retains her warm-hearted, compassionate nature despite the pressures around her.

By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times, a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.

À propos de l?auteur

Philip Collins is the author of Dickens aria Crime and Dickens and Education, and the editor of volumes of interviews with Dickens and Thackeray. He was formerly Emeritus Professor of English at Leicester University.