Description: Hard Times, Penguin Clothbound Classics, Hardcover, 2011 Condition: Mint Hard Times is perhaps the archetypal Dickens novel, full as it is with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. It was published in 1854 and it is the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, and occurs in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston. Gradgrind is a man obsessed with misguided ‘Utilitarian’ values that make him trust facts, statistics and practicality more than emotion and is based upon James Mill (the Utilitarian leader). He directs his own children, Louisa and Tom, in this same way: enforcing an artless existence upon them. Contemporary critics such as Macaulay savaged the book for its supposed ‘sullen socialism’ but it has become well thought-of since the favour of George Bernard Shaw.
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Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Novel
Unit Type: Unit
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 1800s
Personalized: No
Features: None
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Book Title: Hard Times
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Classics, Family Life, Literary, Political, Historical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
