Hard Times
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9780553900811
Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times. a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.From the Hardcover edition.