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Hard Times (Signet Classics)
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Hard Times (Signet Classics) Mass market paperback - 2008 - 2008th Edition

by Dickens, Charles; Busch, Frederick [Introduction]; Smiley, Jane [Afterword];

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A scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" is a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Revised reissue.

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  • Title Hard Times (Signet Classics)
  • Author Dickens, Charles; Busch, Frederick [Introduction]; Smiley, Jane [Afterword];
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition number 2008th
  • Edition 2008
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet
  • Date 2008-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0451530993_used
  • ISBN 9780451530998 / 0451530993
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.86 x 4.2 x 0.93 in (17.42 x 10.67 x 2.36 cm)
  • Reading level 750
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009291050
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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 ideas?and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.

From the publisher

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.


Jane Smiley's ten works of fiction include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Moo, A Thousand Acres (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and most recently the bestselling Horse Heaven.

About the author

Charles Dickens (1812-70) had a happy childhood until age twelve when, due to his father's confinement in debtors' prison, he was forced to leave school to work in a factory. He taught himself shorthand and worked as a parliamentary reporter until his writing career took off with the publication of Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837). As a novelist and magazine editor, Dickens had a long run of serialized success, including Oliver Twist (1838), David Copperfield (1850), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861). In later years, ill health slowed him down, but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public, which included Queen Victoria. At his death, The Mystery of Edwin Drood remained unfinished.

Frederick Busch (1941-2006) was the author of eighteen works of fiction, including Closing Arguments, Girls, and The Mutual Friend, a novel about Charles Dickens. The winner of numerous awards, he was the Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

Jane Smiley is an American novelist. In addition to her many novels (including Ten Days in the Hills, Horse Heaven, and A Thousand Acres), she wrote a short biography of Charles Dickens for the Penguin Lives series (2001).