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Title: HARD TIMES
By: Charles Dickens, Harry French (Illus), David Stuart Davies
Format: Hardback

List price: £8.99


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ISBN 10: 1905716389
ISBN 13: 9781905716388
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 1 September, 2008
Edition: Main Market Ed.
Pages: 416
Description: Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
Synopsis: Hard Times is perhaps the archetypal Dickens novel, full as it is with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. It was published in 1854 and it is the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, and occurs in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston. Gradgrind is a man obsessed with misguided 'Utilitarian' values that make him trust facts, statistics and practicality more than emotion and is based upon James Mill (the Utilitarian leader). He directs his own children, Louisa and Tom, in this same way: enforcing an artless existence upon them. Contemporary critics such as Macaulay savaged the book for its supposed 'sullen socialism' but it has become well thought-of since the favour of George Bernard Shaw.Illustrated by Harry French, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.
Illustrations: ill
Publication: UK
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Returns: Returnable
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