Hard Times: For These Times ~ Paperbound

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Contents

CHAPTER II
3
CHAPTER III
10
CHAPTER IV
16
CHAPTER V
24
CHAPTER VI
31
Mrs Sparsit
46
CHAPTER VIII
54
CHAPTER IX
61
CHAPTER IV
153
Men and Masters
162
CHAPTER VI
170
Gunpowder
184
Explosion
198
Hearing the Last of
212
Mrs Sparsits Staircase PAGE
222
CHAPTER XII
237

CHAPTER X
70
CHAPTER XI
77
CHAPTER XII
86
CHAPTER XIII
92
CHAPTER XIV
101
CHAPTER XV
107
CHAPTER XVI
116
CHAPTER I
123
CHAPTER II
138
The Whelp
147
BOOK THE THIRD GARNERING
243
CHAPTER II
250
CHAPTER III
261
CHAPTER IV
271
CHAPTER V
282
CHAPTER VI
292
Whelphunting
303
CHAPTER VIII
316
CHAPTER IX
324

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Page vii - Allowing for his manner of telling them, the things he tells us are always true. I wish that he could think it right to limit his brilliant exaggeration to works written only for public amusement; and when he takes up a subject of high national importance, such as that which he handled in Hard Times, that he would use severer and more accurate analysis.
Page 24 - It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
Page 6 - You must paper it," said the gentleman, rather warmly. "You must paper it," said Thomas Gradgrind, "whether you like it or not. Don't tell us you wouldn't paper it. What do you mean, boy?" "I'il explain to you, then," said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, "why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses.
Page 4 - Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
Page 6 - ... he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer. He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter, bore his opponent (he always fought All England) to the ropes, and fall upon him neatly. He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
Page 2 - ... the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, — nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, — all helped the emphasis. 'In this life, we want nothing but Facts, Sir; nothing but Facts!

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