Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Hard Times
Buch
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 01/2012
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780307947208
- Bestellnummer: 9717948
- Umfang: 288 Seiten
- Gewicht: 293 g
- Maße: 208 x 136 mm
- Stärke: 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.1.2012
- Serie: Vintage Classics
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
The shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice.Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters-Mr. Gradgrind, whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool, an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe, a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life-all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion, and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity.