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Hard Times: Introduction by Phil Collins
Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Collins, Phil (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0679413235     ISBN-13: 9780679413233
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 1992
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Annotation: Hard Times, a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beast by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Satire
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 91058704
Lexile Measure: 750(Not Available)
Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.29" W x 8.28" L (1.07 lbs) 336 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 50672
Reading Level: 9.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 20.0
 
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"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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