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Author: Charles DickensFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Lb May & Assoc IncISBN-10: 1853262323
ISBN-13: 9781853262326Educational Level: --
Product Type: --Publication Year: 1998
Subject: Education, TeachingLanguage: English
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The daughter of a circus performer, abandoned by her father, is adopted by the coldhearted Thomas Gradgrind, whose own children have been reared in a bleak and loveless household and whose lives threaten to be ruined accordingly. A parallel story involves an honest millworker town between his drunken wife and a sympathetic fellow worker at the mill; eventually, he is executed for a crime committed by Gradgrind. HARD TIMES is one of Dickens's typical novels, in which natural, loving, and warmhearted characters like the circus folk are contrasted with those who are pragmatic and ruthless, like Gradgrind.

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The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind. But the novel, Dickens's shortest, is more than a polemical tract for the times; the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father is one of Dickens's triumphs. When Louisa, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls prey to an idle seducer, the crisis forces her father to reconsider his cherished system. Yet even as the development of the story reflects Dickens's growing pessimism about human nature and society, Hard Times marks his return to the theme which had made his early works so popular: the amusements of the people. Sleary's circus represents Dickens's most considered defence of the necessity of entertainment, and infuses the novel with the good humour which has ensured its appeal to generations of readers.

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"Perhaps only modern readers equipped with hindsight can appreciate how perceptive Dickens was, both in the themes he chose and in what he said about them....HARD TIMES is no period piece. Its themes vex us still. Rather than grousing about the book's structural and other novelistic shortcomings, a modern reader can be grateful that in this case Dickens the tale-spinner yielded priority of place to Dickens the seer."
New York Review of Books - Jane Jacobs (07/19/2001)


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Hard Times (Wordsworth Classics)

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ISBN : 1853262323
Title : Hard Times (Wordsworth Classics)
EAN : 9781853262326
Authors : Charles Dickens
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date : 1995-01-01
Pages : 272
List Price (MSRP) : 1.99
Height : 0.7100 inches
Width : 4.8800 inches
Length : 7.7200 inches
Weight : 0.4000 pounds
Keywords : Look Inside!, Dickens, Charles, Walker, Fiona, General AAS, General, English, Paperback, Regular Size
Condition : Good

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