Hard Times (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451530993 ISBN 13: 9780451530998

Verlag: Signet, 2008

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Book by Dickens Charles

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"This is a work indispensable for a discussion of the reflection of the process of industrialization in European Realism as well as the question of education. A superb social commentary on the times."--Sven H. Rossel, University of Washington"Nicely printed, but inexpensive, clear edition--what I'm looking for." --Dr. Dolores Luhr, La Salle University

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Dickens’s scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. 

Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens’s most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education: facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and logic over sentiment, only to see his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family.

Filled with memorable characters and scenes, Hard Times is a daring novel of ideas—and, ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and imagination.

With an Introduction by Frederick Busch 
and an Afterword by Jane Smiley

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• Verlag: Signet
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0451530993
• ISBN 13: 9780451530998
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336