Hard Times
Editor/introduction - Kate Flint
Notes by - Kate Flint
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 27 Feb 2003
£6.99
Synopsis
Penguin Classics give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background to the book.
In Hard Times Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141439679
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 368
Published : 27 Feb 2003
Publisher : Penguin Classics
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Hard Times
Editor/introduction - Kate Flint
Notes by - Kate Flint
£6.99



