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Hard Times
Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author)

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 ISBN: 1517552850     ISBN-13: 9781517552855
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $12.11  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Political
Dewey: 822.914
Lexile Measure: 1060(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.92 lbs) 312 pages
 
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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 follows a classical tripartite structure, and the titles of each book are related to Galatians 6:7, "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing", Book II is entitled "Reaping", and the third is "Garnering." Superintendent Mr. Gradgrind opens the novel at his school in Coketown stating, "Now, what I want is, Facts", and interrogates one of his pupils, Sissy, whose father works at a circus. Because her father works with horses, Gradgrind demands the definition of 'horse'. When she is scolded for inability to define a horse factually, her classmate Bitzer gives a zoological profile; and Sissy is censured for suggesting that she would carpet a floor with pictures of flowers. Louisa and Thomas, two of Mr. Gradgrind's children, go after school to see the touring circus run by Mr. Sleary, only to meet their father, who orders them home. Mr. Gradgrind has three younger children: Adam Smith, (after the famous theorist of laissez-faire policy), Malthus (after Rev. Thomas Malthus, who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, warning of the dangers of future overpopulation), and Jane.
 
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