Hard Times [As New in the acetate jacket with the half paper dust jacket]
Language: English
Published by Everyman's Library, New York, 1992
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A beautiful As New copy of the Everyman's Library edition of Dicken's Hard Times. In the original acetate wraparound jacket with the printed paper half jacket beneath. A lovely unmarked copy. ROBUST SHIPPING.
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- Title
- Hard Times [As New in the acetate jacket with the half paper dust jacket]
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library, New York
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679413235
- ISBN 13
- 9780679413233
- Illustrator
- Introduction by Phil Collins
- Series
- Book 302 of 420: Norton Critical Editions
"Facts alone are wanted in life." The children at Mr. Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. 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.
By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times, a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.
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About the Author
When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-3), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1855-7) reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) complete his major works.
Dickens's marriage to Catherine Hoggarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day's work at his home at Gads Hill, Kent on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day.
PHILIP COLLINS is the author of Dickens and Crime and Dickens and Education, and the editor of volumes of interviews with Dickens and Thackeray. Formerly Emeritus Professor of English at Leicester University, Collins died in 2007.
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