by Charles Dickens · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140433982
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«Hard Times: For These Times» is the classic novel by Charles Dickens, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Set in the industrial town of Coketown, it follows Thomas Gradgrind, a father who raises his children Tom and Louisa with a strict devotion to facts and figures. With characters such as the banker Josiah Bounderby, Dickens criticizes utilitarianism and portrays the dehumanization of the Victorian working class.
The novel was originally published in 1854. This edition includes an introduction and notes by Kate Flint.
For readers of British classics and for those seeking a critical view of Victorian industrial society.
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.
