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Hard times
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- Book Synopsis
- Hard Times is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Boudnerby he stigmatised the philosopy of Utilitarianism, which allowed human beings to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
- About The Author
- Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857150735
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Everyman, (04 June 1992)
- Number of Pages
- 293
- Weight
- 485 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 133 x 24 mm
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