Hard Times Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307947203 ISBN-13: 9780307947208 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $8.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Satire |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012374313 |
Lexile Measure: 750 |
Series: Vintage Classics |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 50672 Reading Level: 9.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 20.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters--Mr. Gradgrind, whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool, an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe, a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life--all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion, and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity. |