Hard Times : For These Times.
Title:
Hard Times : For These Times.
Author:
Dickens, Charles.
ISBN:
9781775568735
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (538 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- BOOK THE FIRST SOWING -- Chapter I The One Thing Needful -- Chapter II Murdering the Innocents -- Chapter III A Loophole -- Chapter IV Mr. Bounderby -- Chapter V The Keynote -- Chapter VI Sleary's Horsemanship -- Chapter VII Mrs. Sparsit -- Chapter VIII Never Wonder -- Chapter IX Sissy's Progress -- Chapter X Stephen Blackpool -- Chapter XI No Way Out -- Chapter XII The Old Woman -- Chapter XIII Rachael -- Chapter XIV The Great Manufacturer -- Chapter XV Father and Daughter -- Chapter XVI Husband and Wife -- BOOK THE SECOND REAPING -- Chapter I Effects in the Bank -- Chapter II Mr. James Harthouse -- Chapter III The Whelp -- Chapter IV Men and Brothers -- Chapter V Men and Masters -- Chapter VI Fading Away -- Chapter VII Gunpowder -- Chapter VIII Explosion -- Chapter IX Hearing the Last of It -- Chapter X Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase -- Chapter XI Lower and Lower -- Chapter XII Down -- BOOK THE THIRD GARNERING -- Chapter I Another Thing Needful -- Chapter II Very Ridiculous -- Chapter III Very Decided -- Chapter IV Lost -- Chapter V Found -- Chapter VI The Starlight -- Chapter VII Whelp-Hunting -- Chapter VIII Philosophical -- Chapter IX Final.
Abstract:
First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce and tragedy...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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