Hard Times
$19.95
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2003
Summary
Coketown: An Age of Materialism and Machinery
Coketown is dominated by Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, a school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. He feeds his pupils and family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds.
His daughter, Louisa, marries the loveless businessman, Mr. Bounderby, while his son, Tom, rebels and becomes embroiled in gambling and robbery.
As their fortunes cross with Sissy Jupe, a free-spirited circus girl, and Stephen Blackpool, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439679 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014143967X |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 281g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.
Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her published work includes The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (2000).
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