by Charles Dickens · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007449941
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«Hard Times» is the Victorian novel by Charles Dickens, published by William Collins in paperback (370 pages, in English).
In Coketown, an industrial city marked by utilitarianism, Thomas Gradgrind raises his children Tom and Louisa on facts and figures alone. This upbringing, without emotions or imagination, leaves them without a moral compass and leads them to unhappiness. The work is a critique of the dehumanization of the Victorian era and of utilitarian philosophy.
Originally published in 1854 under the title «Hard Times: For These Times», it is part of the Collins Classics collection.
For readers of Victorian classics, students of English literature, and those seeking a social critique of the industrial era.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
