Hard Times
For These Times
By Charles Dickens, Stephen Wall (Contributor), Kate Flint (Preface)




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Book Description
Hard Times appeared in weekly parts in Household Words in 1854, printed on the pages usually occupied by leading articles on the major social issues of the day. In the overlapping worlds of Gradgrind's schoolroom, Bounderby the humbug industrialist and Sissy Jupe of Sleary's Circus, Dickens joyfullyContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
6 Reviews
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Do it at once!
If you look at the story itself it is far too simple for Dickens' standards. That is to say, we are not going to find the greatest plot of his novels here, rather one of the tamest. But, as it is usual with Dickens', the real gold lies with the set of characters.
Mr. Bounderby behaves up to th ... (continue)
daniele said on Aug 31, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Hard Times è un testo-chiave del canone letterario inglese (britannico, of course). In primis, perchè - essendo innanzitutto e soprattutto un testo d'analisi e critica sociale - può esser considerato l'opera-chiave, o lo specchio, dell'età vittoriana - l'era della massima espansione britannica, a li ... (continue)
Krokgard said on Jan 19, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Light in even the darkest places!
Not having read this for many years I was struck by the freshness of the characters in the very sad environment of Coketown. The dirt and grime of this industrial town, the overwhelming depression that oozes out of the factory walls. Yet in the midst of all this depression and sadness we find such h ... (continue)
GraJon said on Nov 26, 2010 | Add your feedback
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Introduction/critical comment(s):
This text of Hard Times is the first to be established by a comparative study of all the surviving versions of Dickens' novel...Among the background readings, this Critical Edition offers all of Dickens' available correspondence about the novel. The three great controversies of the Victorian era wi ... (continue)
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wyvernfriend said on Feb 28, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 319 Pages
- Edition: 1
- ISBN-10: 0140433988
- ISBN-13: 9780140433982
- Publisher: Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1995
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Hard Times
One of the few Dickens novels that isn't set in London, this savage, satirical attack on the ruthlessness and hypocrisy of Victorian industrialists takes place in Coketown, aka Blackburn, Bolton or any other Lancastrian mill town. Of course I'd prefe ... (read full critics)