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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... heart ; his daughter reveals that she had one all along . But by and large characters decline to depart from the social type they are cast to play . There is Stephen Blackpool , the honest and long - suffering working man ; Slackbridge ...
... heart ; his daughter reveals that she had one all along . But by and large characters decline to depart from the social type they are cast to play . There is Stephen Blackpool , the honest and long - suffering working man ; Slackbridge ...
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... heart , and am right sure and certain that ' t is far too merciful to let her die , or even so much as suffer , for want of aid . Thou knowest who said , ' Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her ! ' There have ...
... heart , and am right sure and certain that ' t is far too merciful to let her die , or even so much as suffer , for want of aid . Thou knowest who said , ' Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her ! ' There have ...
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... heart , to a hundred thousand hearts quite ready to respond . The story is not meant to do what fiction cannot do - to prove a case ; its utmost purpose is to express forcibly a righteous sentiment . To run anywhere into a dis- cussion ...
... heart , to a hundred thousand hearts quite ready to respond . The story is not meant to do what fiction cannot do - to prove a case ; its utmost purpose is to express forcibly a righteous sentiment . To run anywhere into a dis- cussion ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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