Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

Hard Times (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780141198347)

Vendor: Charles Dickens
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Format: Hardcover
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Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

Hard Times

$25.00
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

Hard Times

$25.00
Format: Hardcover
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 0141198346
ISBN-13: 9780141198347
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2012
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.32w x 1.26d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.3
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 50672 / Hard Times
By Charles Dickens
By Charles Dickens
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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.

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