Hard times
Dickens, Charles, 1812-18701992
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Hard Times is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Boudnerby he stigmatised the philosopy of Utilitarianism, which allowed human beings to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
Main title:
Hard times / Charles Dickens.
Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author
Edition:
[New ed.] / with an introduction by Philip Collins.
Imprint:
London : David Campbell, c1992.
Collation:
xxxvii, 293 pages. ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Everyman's library ; 73
Notes:
This ed. originally published, 1907.Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxvii).
ISBN:
9781857150735 (hbk)1857150732 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.8CL
Local class:
FICFAFSFFictionFTNSF DIC 12
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
FictionHistoricalPovertySSLEnglish fiction
BRN:
462864