Hard Times: Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141198346 ISBN 13: 9780141198347

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2011

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London. 21 cm. xli, 321 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Idioma Inglés. Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint. [Hard times ]. Also published in 2011 as part of boxed set of the Major works of Charles Dickens, with ISBN 9780141198415. Includes bibliographical references .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9780141198347 (hbk.); 0141198346 (hbk.); 978014119

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.

Biografía del autor:

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812. He is the author of such Classics as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield. In later works, such as Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed and he died on 9 June 1870.

Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her published work includes The Victorians and The Visual Imagination.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141198346
• ISBN 13: 9780141198347
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Flint Kate
• Zeichner: Bickford-Smith Coralie