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Hard Times

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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 circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drugdery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.

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823.83

Publisher

London, UK : Wordsworth Editions Limited., 1995

Collation

243 hlm.; 12.5 x 19.5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781853262326 / 1853262323

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823.83

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Edition

Paperback

Subject(s)

Literature
English and Old English Literature
Fiction and Literature
General Fiction
Dickens, Charles 1812–70

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