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Hard times for these times / by Charles Dickens ; with an afterword by Charles Shapiro.
LIBRA - Rare PR4561 .A1 1961 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Series:
- Signet classic
- A Signet classic ; CD79
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems--England--Fiction.
- Social problems.
- Social conditions.
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
- England.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- London (England)--History--18th century--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- London (England)--History--18th century--Fiction.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Satire.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Published by the New American Library, [1961]
- Contents:
- Book The First. Sowing. The one thing needful; Murdering the innocents; A loophole; Mr. Bounderby; The keynote; Sleary's horsemanship; Mrs. Sparsit; Never wonder; Sissy's progress; Stephen Blackpool; No way out; The old woman; Rachael; The great manufacturer; Father and daughter; Husband and wife
- Book The Second. Readping. Effects in the bank; Mr. James Harthouse; The whelp; Men and brothers; Men and masters; Fading away; Gunpowder; Explosion; Hearing the last of it; Mrs. Sparsit's staircase; Lower and lower; Down
- Book The Third. Garnering. Another thing needful; Very ridiculous; Very decided; Lost; Found; The starlight; Whelp-hunting; Philosophical; Final.
- Notes:
- "First Printing, July, 1961."
- "This edition of 'Hard Times' is based on the first book-form printing of 1854. The spelling and punctuation have been brought into conformity with modern British conventions and obvious errors have been corrected."--A Note on the Text.
- Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-300).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Potok April 1964 Jerusalem".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times for these times.
- OCLC:
- 2328311
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