Hard Times
$32.38
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2012
Summary
The shortest of Charles Dickens’s novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice.
Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author’s indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters—Mr. Gradgrind, whose utili…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307947208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307947203 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Phil Collins |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his life in London. When he was twelve, his father was sent to debtor’s prison and he was forced to work in a boot polish factory, an experience that marked him for life. He became a passionate advocate of social reform and the most popular writer of the Victorian era.
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