An edition of Hard Times (1854)

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An edition of Hard Times (1854)

Hard times

  • 3.8 (13 ratings) ·
  • 165 Want to read
  • 19 Currently reading
  • 23 Have read

Contemporary fiction. Looks at working conditions in a Victorian factory town in the industrial north of England. It's an extraordinary novel that considers how enslavement to systems at the expense of imagination and feeling can wreck human lives. This new edition celebrates Charles Dickens' most openly campaigning novel, through which the author said he aimed to ''strike the heaviest blow in my power''. Hard Times explores the important social questions of the day and places prosperity and morality under the microscope.

Publish Date
Publisher
Arcturus
Language
English
Pages
253

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Edition Availability
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Hard Times
May 01, 2018, Random House UK
paperback
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Hard Times
2018, Standard Ebooks
in English
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Hard Times
2017-01-01, Vintage Classics
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Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
2017, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
in English
Cover of: Slechte Tijden
Slechte Tijden
2015-12-26, Project Gutenberg
in Dutch
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Hard times
2013, Arcturus
in English
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Hard times
2012, Chivers
in English - Large print ed.
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Hard times
2012, HarperPress
in English
Cover of: Slechte Tijden
Slechte Tijden
2011-10-12, LibriVox
in Dutch
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Hard Times
2011-09-19, LibriVox
in English
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Hard Times
2007-09-13, LibriVox
in English
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Hard Times
1997-01-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Hard times
1987, Dent
in English
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Hard Times
1978-11-01, Imprint unknown
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Hard times
1964, Dent
in English
Cover of: Hard Times
Hard Times
xxxx, Heron Books
in English

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Edition Notes

First published: England : Bradbury & Evans, 1854.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.8

The Physical Object

Pagination
253 pages
Number of pages
253

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32104046M
Internet Archive
hardtimes0000dick_o3x7
ISBN 10
1782124195
ISBN 13
9781782124191
OCLC/WorldCat
859193441

Work Description

Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.

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