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 63
... night . " Good night , dear lass ; good night ! " She went , with her neat figure and her sober womanly step , down the dark street , and he stood looking after her until she turned into one of the small houses . There was not a flutter ...
... night . " Good night , dear lass ; good night ! " She went , with her neat figure and her sober womanly step , down the dark street , and he stood looking after her until she turned into one of the small houses . There was not a flutter ...
Page 174
... night , my dear , good night ! " " You have nothing more to tell me ? " " No. What should I have ? You would n't have me tell you a lie ? " " I would n't have you do that to - night , Tom , of all the nights in your life ; many and much ...
... night , my dear , good night ! " " You have nothing more to tell me ? " " No. What should I have ? You would n't have me tell you a lie ? " " I would n't have you do that to - night , Tom , of all the nights in your life ; many and much ...
Page 227
... night again , day and night again . No Stephen Black- pool . Where was the man , and why did he not come back ? Every night , Sissy went to Rachael's lodging , and sat with her in her small neat room . All day , Rachael toiled as such ...
... night again , day and night again . No Stephen Black- pool . Where was the man , and why did he not come back ? Every night , Sissy went to Rachael's lodging , and sat with her in her small neat room . All day , Rachael toiled as such ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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