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Hard Times (Penguin Classics)

Hard Times (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1998

by Charles Dickens

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  • Title Hard Times (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date January 1, 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002018596
  • ISBN 9780140433982 / 0140433988
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.01 x 0.71 in (19.61 x 12.73 x 1.80 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 09 years
  • Grade levels P - 4
  • Reading level 750
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96129922
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideasand ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.

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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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Now, what I want is, Facts.

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