Hard TimesThis story of class conflict in Victorian England serves as a powerful critique of the social injustices that plagued the Industrial Revolution. Always concerned with issues of class, social injustice, and employment, Dickens shows in Hard Times, written in 1854, a broader concern with the philosophies and economic movements which underlie those issues. Three parallel story lines reflect a broad cross-section of society and its thinking. This edition includes: -A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information -A chronology of the author's life and work -A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context -An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations -Detailed explanatory notes -Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work -Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction -A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience |
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Page 13
... light-eyed and lighthaired that the selfsame rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed. His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate ...
... light-eyed and lighthaired that the selfsame rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed. His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate ...
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... light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antennae of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead and sat down again. The third gentleman now stepped forth. A mighty man at cutting and drying he was ...
... light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antennae of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead and sat down again. The third gentleman now stepped forth. A mighty man at cutting and drying he was ...
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... light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression. Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful ...
... light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression. Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful ...
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... did) like an indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it. Hard Times 29 “She kept a chandler's shop,”1 pursued Bounderby, Dickens_HardTimes_001-430 10/20/06 8:30 AM Page 28.
... did) like an indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it. Hard Times 29 “She kept a chandler's shop,”1 pursued Bounderby, Dickens_HardTimes_001-430 10/20/06 8:30 AM Page 28.
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