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 76
Charles Dickens Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny. He certainly never had seen this old woman before . Yet there was a vague remembrance in his mind , as if he had more than once dreamed of some old woman like her . She walked along at his ...
Charles Dickens Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny. He certainly never had seen this old woman before . Yet there was a vague remembrance in his mind , as if he had more than once dreamed of some old woman like her . She walked along at his ...
Page 77
... old woman appeared to take it for granted that he would be very happy , indeed , and he had not the heart to disappoint her . He knew that there was trouble enough in the world ; and if the old woman had lived so long , and could count ...
... old woman appeared to take it for granted that he would be very happy , indeed , and he had not the heart to disappoint her . He knew that there was trouble enough in the world ; and if the old woman had lived so long , and could count ...
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... old woman he had encountered on his previous visit to the same house , when he heard a step behind him that he knew , and , turning , saw her in Rachael's company . He saw Rachael first , as he had heard her only . " Ah , Rachael , my ...
... old woman he had encountered on his previous visit to the same house , when he heard a step behind him that he knew , and , turning , saw her in Rachael's company . He saw Rachael first , as he had heard her only . " Ah , Rachael , my ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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