Hard Times

Name: Hard Times
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ISBN: 9780553210163

ISBN-10: 0553210165

ISBN-13: 9780553210163

Edition: 1964

Authors: Charles Dickens, Robert Donald Spector

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Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens’s weekly magazine,Household Words, Hard Timeswas 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 ofThe Pickwick PapersandThe 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…

Book details

List price: $5.95
Copyright year: 1964
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.73" wide x 4.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.330




Sowing



The One Thing Needful



Murdering the Innocents



A Loophole



Mr. Bounderby



The Keynote



Sleary's Horsemanship



Mrs. Sparsit



Never Wonder



Sissy's Progress



Stephen Blackpool



No Way Out



The Old Woman



Rachael



The Great Manufacturer



Father and Daughter



Husband and Wife



Reaping



Effects in the Bank



Mr. James Harthouse



The Whelp



Men and Brothers



Men and Masters



Fading Away



Gunpowder



Explosion



Hearing the Last of It



Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase



Lower and Lower



Down



Garnering



Another Thing Needful



Very Ridiculous



Very Decided



Lost



Found



The Starlight



Whelp-hunting



Philosophical



Final