...the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man...' Charles Dicken's famous classic Oliver Twist is the tale of the eponymous hero -- an orphaned boy whose life is beset by adversities and trials. Set in the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, the book captures the gritty realities of 19th-century England. Dickens pulls you into the harsh li…
We need to be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done--of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.
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 charact…