Hard Times
Hard Times
About the Book
Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
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Paperback, 2nd Edition
ISBN13: 9789386538345
Fingerprint Publishing, 2018
Paperback, 9th Edition
ISBN13: 9780099518921
Vintage, 2009
Paperback, 18th Edition
ISBN13: 9781853262326
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998