Hard times / Charles Dickens.
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TextSeries: Collins classicsLondon : HarperPress, 2012Description: viii, 370 pages ; 18 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780007449941 (paperback)Subject(s): Social problems -- Fiction | Married people -- Fiction | Utilitarianism -- Fiction | England -- FictionLOC classification: PR4561 .A1 2012Summary: Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophy, his own daughters terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism.
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| PR 4560 .A2 C37 2008 Great expectations / | PR 4560 .A68 2010 Büyük umutlar / | PR 4560 .A68 2016 Büyük umutlar / | PR 4561 .A1 2012 Hard times / | PR 4561 .A68 2016 Zor yıllar / | PR 4565 .A2 S35 2008 Nicholas Nickleby / | PR 4566 .A1 2012 The old curiosity shop / |
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Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophy, his own daughters terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism.