Charles Dickens' Hard TimesPart of Longman's Cultural Edition series, Charles Dickens' Hard Times offers this intriguing novel within several provocative and illuminating contexts--cultural, critical, and literary. Based on the first edition, Hard Times is extensively annotated, with a lively introduction and helpful notes on cultural references, social and political mores, literary allusions, and unfamiliar word usage. In addition to providing a chronology coordinating Dickens' life with key historical events, the editors explore the political, economical, educational, and social state of England in the 1830s and 1840s. Many of these issues are reflected in the section of Victorian-era reactions to Hard Times. A guide to further reading is provided as a service to students, scholars, and the curious. |
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Page 61
... Stephen Blackpool , forty years of age . Stephen looked older , but he had had a hard life . It is said that every life has its roses and thorns ; there seemed , however , to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case ...
... Stephen Blackpool , forty years of age . Stephen looked older , but he had had a hard life . It is said that every life has its roses and thorns ; there seemed , however , to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case ...
Page 69
Charles Dickens Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny. Blackpool . There was nothing troublesome against Stephen Black- pool ; yes , he might come in . Stephen Blackpool in the parlour . Mr. Bounderby ( whom he just knew by sight ) , at lunch on ...
Charles Dickens Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny. Blackpool . There was nothing troublesome against Stephen Black- pool ; yes , he might come in . Stephen Blackpool in the parlour . Mr. Bounderby ( whom he just knew by sight ) , at lunch on ...
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... Stephen Blackpool ; for whom he thought this signal failure of the suspicions against Mrs. Pegler was likely to work well . As to the whelp ; throughout this scene as on all other late occa- sions , he had stuck close to Bounderby . He ...
... Stephen Blackpool ; for whom he thought this signal failure of the suspicions against Mrs. Pegler was likely to work well . As to the whelp ; throughout this scene as on all other late occa- sions , he had stuck close to Bounderby . He ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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