Hard Times

"Penguin Classics" give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens' novels, including useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens' life and notes that fill in the background to the book. In "Hard Times" Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.

ISBN 014143967X   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780141439679 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 270 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Penguin Classics   Series editor Ingham, Patricia Format Paperback   Series title Penguin Classics S. Publication date 27 Feb 2003   Previous ISBN 9780140433982 Writer of introduction Kate Flint   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress 2003269461   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 823.8   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 368   Alternative ISBN 9781931056663

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