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Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series)

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873431

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 24mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 403g

  • RRP: £10.99

Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series)

‘Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.’

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects of Gradgrind's teaching on his own children, Tom and Louisa, are particularly profound and leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart. Luckily for them they have a friend in Sissy Jupe, the child of a circus clown, who retains her warm-hearted, compassionate nature despite the pressures around her.

Also in the Vintage Classics Dickens Series:

A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873431

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 24mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 403g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • A masterpiece...a completely serious work of art

    F.R.Leavis

  • The greatest of Dickens' work...should be studied with close and earnest care

    John Ruskin

  • Big and earnest, though circus folk and bank robbery add colour to its canvas of industrialists and loveless marriages

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Charles Dickens

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