Hard Times
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1548761265 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. . From School Library Journal Grade 7-12-Dickens' satire on the Victorian family and the philosophies of a society which sought to turn men into machines
"Dickens is the consummate story teller. He weaves a" according to Linda Taft. Dickens is the consummate story teller. He weaves a tapestry of personality and place with an unerring eye for detail and authenticity. In Hard Times he creates a contrast between those who live by objective standards and those who exist in a world of sense and feelings.His characters, especially the more mature, remind one of some they might have known, who reflected similarly, their life experiences. Some real other imagined. The benefit of reading this Classic lies in the timeless and true messages. A young person might enrich their decision making abi. Education style and Industrial relations in the nineteenth century J vincent I purchased this book to read on my Kindle as the DVD had proved faulty half way through and I wanted to know the end of the story. It is quite a short novel compared to other stories by Dickens. I enjoyed reading it very much and realised how much richer the detail was in the written version. The illustrations were helpful and gave extra detail about clothing and furnishings etc in the nineteenth century. This story is enjoyable and easy to approach if you have not read Dickens before. The principles of the approach to education and the results as demons. Robert J. Player said "Hard Times" as literary and social history. The book was somewhat of a polemic against some of the prevailing social philosophies of the day, and this trumped the character development present in many of Dickens' more well known works. As an artifact of literary history and as a marker in the history of the development of the English Novel, the book is well worth reading. I enjoyed it from that perspective, but it's certainly not of the stature of "Bleak House", "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", "Great Expectations", or "A Tale of Two Cities."