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Author: Charles DickensFormat: --
Publisher: Bantam Classic & LovesweptISBN-10: 0553210165
Edition Description: ReissueISBN-13: 9780553210163
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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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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 exposé 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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"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 (Bantam Classics)

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0553210165
Title : Hard Times (Bantam Classics)
EAN : 9780553210163
Authors : Charles Dickens
Binding : Mass Market Paperback
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Publication Date : 1981-03-01
Pages : 320
List Price (MSRP) : 4.95
Height : 0.6700 inches
Width : 4.1700 inches
Length : 6.8900 inches
Weight : 0.3500 pounds
Keywords : General, Paperback, Classics, Dickens, Charles, All 4-for-3 Deals, General AAS, Mass Market, 4-for-3 Books, Printed Books
Condition : Acceptable

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