Pre-Owned Hard Times (Paperback) 1853262323 9781853262326

Name: Pre-Owned Hard Times (Paperback) 1853262323 9781853262326
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Book Condition: Pre-Owned in good condition, this trade paperback edition of "Hard Times" features a glued binding.
Publication Details: This revised English edition contains 272 pages and is part of the Wordsworth Classics series.
Literary Context: Charles Dickens' shortest completed novel, it offers a significant commentary on Victorian society.
Setting & Characters: Set in the fictional industrial town of Coketown, it features characters like the utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and factory owner Josiah Bounderby.
Thematic Contrast: The harsh industrial environment is contrasted with the joy provided by 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus.
Critical Reception: While initially criticized by Macaulay, 20th-century critics like George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis highly praised the book.
Included Enhancements: Features an introduction and notes by Dinny Thorold, and illustrations by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen.

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Literature & Fiction
Publication date
January, 1998
Pages
272
Reading level
Grade 2

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9781853262326. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 272. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Wordsworth Classics. 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.

ISBN: 9781853262326
Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
Trade paperback
Revised ed.
Language: English
Pages: 272
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Wordsworth Classics.
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.

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Genre

Literature & Fiction

Publication date

January, 1998

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