Hard Times novel, 9789394791121 ISBN, Prints Publications

Hard Times

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Prints Publications Pvt Ltd

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Publisher	Prints Publications Pvt Ltd
Publication Year	2023
ISBN-13	9789394791121
Binding	Paper back
Number of Pages	276 Pages
Language	English
Edition	1st
Dimension (Inches)	5.5"*8.5"
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