Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/11/2017
ISBN: 9781784873431
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 24mm x 153mm
Weight: 403g
RRP: £10.99
‘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
Published: 02/11/2017
ISBN: 9781784873431
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 24mm x 153mm
Weight: 403g
RRP: £10.99
A masterpiece...a completely serious work of art
The greatest of Dickens' work...should be studied with close and earnest care
Big and earnest, though circus folk and bank robbery add colour to its canvas of industrialists and loveless marriages