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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Hard Times. From Dickens' "Household Words". written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, "Household Words, Hard Times" was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of "The Pickwick Papers" and "The Old Curiosity Shop," Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter expose of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution-and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters-including the heartless fact-worshipper Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternally noble Stephen Blackpool-"Hard Times" carries a uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens's major novels.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409075230
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is proof of Dickens' genius (or maybe just the unchanging nature of Britain) that you can read Hard Times as if it were all happening now' Guardian '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. 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.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551110752
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1996-03-12 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love, of Sissy the circus girl with love to spare who is deserted and adopted into their family, and of the honest mill worker Stephen Blackpool and the bombastic mill owner Josiah Bounderby. The key contrasts created are finally less those between wealth and poverty, or capitalists and workers, than those between the head and the heart, between “Fact”—the cold, rationalistic approach to life that Dickens associates with utilitarianism—and “Fancy”—a warmth of the imagination and of the feelings, which values individuals above ideas. Concentrated and compressed in its narrative form, Hard Times is at once a fable, a novel of ideas, and a social novel that seeks to engage directly and analytically with political issues. The central conflicts raised in the text, between government’s duty not to intervene to guarantee the liberty of the subject, and between quantitative and qualitative assessments of progress, remain unresolved today in the late or post industrial stages of liberal democracies.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781022415430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Household Words written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Household Words written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195041X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words written by Catherine Waters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.
Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hard Times for These Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849643085
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Hard Times (And Other Stories) written by Charles Dickens and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When "Hard Times" appeared as a serial in Household Words in 1854, Dickens was about midway in his literary career. In the same year this novel appeared in an octavo volume with a dedication to Thomas Carlyle. Its purpose, according to Dickens himself, was to satirize "those who see figures and averages and nothing else—the representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time — the men who through long years to come will do more to damage the really useful facts of Political Economy than I could do (if I tried) in my whole life." The satire, however, like much that Dickens attempted in the same vein, was not very bitter. The characters in "Hard Times" are not numerous; and the plot itself is less intricate than others by the same author. The chief figures are Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, "a man of realities," with his unbounded faith in statistics; Louisa, his eldest daughter; and Josiah Bounderby, as practical as Mr. Gradgrind, but less kind-hearted. Louisa, though many years younger than Mr. Bounderby, is persuaded by her father to marry him. She is also influenced in making this marriage by her desire to smooth the path of her brother Tom, a clerk in Mr. Bounderby's office. Though not happy, she resists the blandishments of James Harthouse, a professed friend of her husband's. To escape him she has to go home to her father; and this leads to a permanent estrangement between husband and wife. In the mean time Tom Gradgrind has stolen money from Bounderby, and to avoid punishment runs away from England ...
Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Hard Times /Charles Dickens written by Norman Page and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and background - Summary and critical commentary - Themes and issues - Plot - Characterization - Style and language - Image and symbol - Critical reception - Questions.
Author : Charles Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781975673741
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why buy our paperbacks? Expedited shipping High Quality Paper Made in USA Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated Hard Times by Charles Dickens Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times.Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston. One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and it was hoped the novel's publication in instalments would boost circulation - as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as F. R. Leavis, George Bernard Shaw, and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era.
Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hard Times" is the 1854 novel by Charles Dickens that sought to highlight the social and economic divide that was growing between capitalistic mill owners and workers during the Victorian era of Great Britain. Originally published in serial form in Dickens's own periodical journal "Household Words", "Hard Times" is unique in that it is not set in London, like many of his works, but in the fictitious Victorian town of Coketown. A critical examination of the poor working conditions in many English factory towns of the time as well as the changing nature of the aristocracy and the working-class in the post industrial revolution era is at the heart of Dickens's Classic novel, "Hard Times".
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540528247
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Times Charles Dickens Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. The novel was published as a serial in Dickens's weekly publication, Household Words. Sales were highly responsive and encouraging for Dickens who remarked that he was "Three parts mad, and the fourth delirious, with perpetual rushing at Hard Times." The novel was serialised, in twenty weekly parts, between 1 April and 12 August 1854. It sold well, and a complete volume was published in August, totalling 110,000 words. Another related novel, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, was also published in this magazine.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Hard Times Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's shortest novel, Hard Times presents a harsh appraisal of English society during the Industrial Revolution. Set in fictitious Coketown, Hard Times tells the story of Thomas Gradgrind and his children, Louisa and Tom, as they struggle to make their way in a changing England. Through the characters of Thomas, Louisa, and Tom, Dickens explores the divide between mill owners and workers during the Victorian era.Hard TimesM/em> was originally published serially in Dickens's weekly periodical, Household Words, between April and August 1854. Considered the darkest of Dicken's novels, Hard Times has divided literary critics who have both lauded it for its exploration of Industrial-era society and criticized it for its skewed portrayal of trade unionism.
Download or read book Household Words : written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical Household Words were low, and it was hoped the novel's publication in instalments would boost circulation - as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era. F. R. Leavis, a great admirer of the book, included it - but not Dickens's work as a whole - as part of his Great Tradition of English novels.
