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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens, Robert Donald Spector
Hard Times - Thryft
Hard Times - Thryft
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens, Robert Donald Spector
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ISBN: 9780553210163
Authors: Charles Dickens, Robert Donald Spector
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date of Publication: 1981-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 67781 readers)

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 PICKWICK PAPERS and THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter expose of capitalist explotation during the Industrial Revolution--and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which treathens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters--including the heartless fact-worshipper Professor 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.
 
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.