Hard Times

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the striet utihuarism Thomas Gradigrind and the heartless factory qwner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding c…

Oliver Twist

The Evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper, his pauper asistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with …

Dickens' Christmas Spirits : A Christmas Carol & Other Tales

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-0-486-47744-2

Collation

Hard Cover, 531 hlm, 14x22,1 cm

Series Title

Christmas Stories

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