Hard Times: Introduction by Phil Collins

Author:   Charles Dickens ,  Phil Collins
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
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9780679413233


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 June 1992
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Charles Dickens ,  Phil Collins
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Everyman's Library USA
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9780679413233


ISBN 10:   0679413235
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 June 1992
Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  General ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Philip Collins is the author of Dickens aria Crime and Dickens and Education, and the editor of volumes of interviews with Dickens and Thackeray. He was formerly Emeritus Professor of English at Leicester University.

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