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 88
... seemed sta- tionary in his course , and underwent no alteration . Except one , which was apart from his necessary progress through the mill . Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery , in a by - corner , and made ...
... seemed sta- tionary in his course , and underwent no alteration . Except one , which was apart from his necessary progress through the mill . Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery , in a by - corner , and made ...
Page 328
... seemed enough to fill up an interesting and animated existence . But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream . It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves , such as everybody is occa- sionally liable to ...
... seemed enough to fill up an interesting and animated existence . But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream . It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves , such as everybody is occa- sionally liable to ...
Page 330
... seemed to have dried up within me , as completely as those of benevolence . [ ... ] Thus neither selfish nor unselfish pleasures were pleasures to me . And there seemed no power in nature sufficient to begin the formation of my ...
... seemed to have dried up within me , as completely as those of benevolence . [ ... ] Thus neither selfish nor unselfish pleasures were pleasures to me . And there seemed no power in nature sufficient to begin the formation of my ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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