Dickens Charles - Hard Times - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The shortest of Charles Dickens's novels Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown a fictional industrial town in the north of England Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul - crushing conditions of the industrial age and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters Mr. Gradgrind whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity.
Title: Hard Times
Author(s): Dickens Charles
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780307947208
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 1/10/2012
Series: Vintage Classics
Category: Classic Fiction