by Charles Dickens, David Craig · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430424
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«Hard Times» is Charles Dickens's social criticism novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Coketown, a Victorian industrial town in northern England, is the setting for the critique of utilitarianism: a system that reduces people to mere numbers among chimneys and machines, in the school and in the factory. Thomas Gradgrind, a pedagogue, and Josiah Bounderby, a businessman, embody the capitalist philosophy that crushes creativity and joy.
Novel originally published in 1854. This edition, edited by David Craig, belongs to the English Library collection.
It is aimed at readers of Victorian classics and students of English literature.
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.
