Text

Hard Times

---

It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys... inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours... to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow...' Charles Dickens' Hard Times is a satirical portrayal of the deleterious effect of the Industrial Revolution and Capitalism. Following the lives of its unforgettable characters -- master of fact, Thomas Gradgrind, heartless and perverse Bounderby, tragic Louisa, fanciful Sissy, honourable Stephen, selfish Tom, and the pesky Mrs. Sparsit -- the narrative bemoans the extermination of imagination, curiosity, and enjoyment, the dehumanisation and suffering of workers, and the spread of rampant greed and dishonesty. Placed in juxtaposition to this portrayal of the times is the entertaining Sleary's Circus Troupe, the only glimmer of a yearning for joie de vivre.

---

Availability

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

813 DIC h

Publisher

India : Wilco International., 2020

Collation

356 pgs.; 19.8 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789391348229

Classification

813

Content Type

text

Media Type

other

Carrier Type

other (unmediated)

Edition

-

Subject(s)

American Fiction
Classics
Literary Fiction
Social Fiction

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Charles Dickens

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment