Description: Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop . Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter expos of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution-and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters-including the heartless fact-worshipper Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternally noble Stephen Blackpool- Hard Times carries a uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens's major novels.
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Signed: No
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Narrative Type: Fiction
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Original Language: English
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Type: Novel
Era: 1970s
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Hard Times
Item Length: 4.3in.
Item Height: 0.7in.
Item Width: 6.7in.
Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Mass Market
Language: English
Topic: Classics, Family Life, Satire, Literary, Political, Historical
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1981
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
