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by Charles Dickens

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  • PublisherPrints Publications Pvt Ltd
  • ISBN-139789394791121
  • BindingPaper back
  • Pages276
  • LanguageEnglish

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Publisher Prints Publications Pvt Ltd
ISBN-13 9789394791121
Binding Paper back
Number of Pages 276 Pages
Language English
Dimension (Inches) 5.5"x8.5"
Weight (Grams) 356
Subject Classic Fiction
Category Fiction

My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else,” proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a “fanatic of the demonstrable fact,” who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality. Considered Dickens’ harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist’s finest creations. Of Dickens’ work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to say: “He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions.”

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was one of the most popular English writers of all time. He created some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Born in Portsmouth, England, on 7 February 1812, his early childhood experiences were much like those depicted in his novel—David Copperfield. He published his first novel, Oliver Twist, in 1837. it was followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838) and the Old Curiosity Shop (1841). A Christmas Carol (1843) is the most popular perhaps of all his works. in 1859, he published a Tale of Two Cities, his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens suffered a stroke and died on 9 June 1870, aged 58.

BOOK THE FIRST: SOWING

1

The One Thing Needful

3

Murdering the Innocents

4

A Loophole

10

Mr. Bounderby

15

The Keynote

22

Sleary’s Horsemanship

28

Mrs. Sparsit

41

Never Wonder

47

Sissy’s Progress

53

Stephen Blackpool

62

No Way Out

67

The Old Woman

74

Rachael

79

The Great Manufacturer

87

Father and Daughter

92

Husband and Wife

99

BOOK THE SECOND: REAPING

104

Effects in the Bank

105

Mr. James Harthouse

118

The Whelp

126

Men And Brothers

131

Men and Masters

138

Fading Away

145

Gunpowder

156

Explosion

168

Hearing the Last of it

180

Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase

188

Lower And Lower

192

Down

200

BOOK THE THIRD: GARNERING

205

Another Thing Needful

206

Very Ridiculous

212

Very Decided

221

Lost

229

Found

238

The Starlight

246

Whelp-Hunting

256

Philosophical

266

Final

272

ILLUSTRATIONS

 

 

Stephen and Rachael in the Sick-room

81

Mr. Harthouse Dining at the Bounderbys’

125

Mr. Harthouse and Tom Gradgrind in the Garden

164

Stephen Blackpool recovered from the Old Hell Shaft

253

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