Hard Times (Bantam Classics)
by Charles Dickens | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0553210165 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0553210165 Global Overview for this book
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Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dicken's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters--including the heartless fact-worshipper Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternally noble Stephen Blackpool--Hard Times carries a uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens's major novels.
