Hard times : For These Times

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce and tragedy...

Contents:

Title; Contents; BOOK THE FIRST SOWING; Chapter I The One Thing Needful; Chapter II Murdering the Innocents; Chapter III A Loophole; Chapter IV Mr. Bounderby; Chapter V The Keynote; Chapter VI Sleary's Horsemanship; Chapter VII Mrs. Sparsit; Chapter VIII Never Wonder; Chapter IX Sissy's Progress; Chapter X Stephen Blackpool; Chapter XI No Way Out; Chapter XII The Old Woman; Chapter XIII Rachael; Chapter XIV The Great Manufacturer; Chapter XV Father and Daughter; Chapter XVI Husband and Wife; BOOK THE SECOND REAPING; Chapter I Effects in the Bank; Chapter II Mr. James Harthouse

Chapter III The WhelpChapter IV Men and Brothers; Chapter V Men and Masters; Chapter VI Fading Away; Chapter VII Gunpowder; Chapter VIII Explosion; Chapter IX Hearing the Last of It; Chapter X Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase; Chapter XI Lower and Lower; Chapter XII Down; BOOK THE THIRD GARNERING; Chapter I Another Thing Needful; Chapter II Very Ridiculous; Chapter III Very Decided; Chapter IV Lost; Chapter V Found; Chapter VI The Starlight; Chapter VII Whelp-Hunting; Chapter VIII Philosophical; Chapter IX Final

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-873-3

OCLC:

493311573