Hard times
by Charles Dickens, García de García de Luna, juan bravo, Elisa Esgasa, and Emilia Pardo Bazán
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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 daughters terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism.
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Manchester, England, Great Britain, Angleterre, Northern EnglandTimes
19th century, 19e siècleShowing 16 featured editions. View all 1030 editions?
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Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
2017, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
in English
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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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