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Hard Times

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Hard Times is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire.rnIt depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedomuntil their sporot is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pompous self-made man and Gradgrind, the censorious disciplinarian, the personal tragedies of Louisa Gradgrind and Stephen Blackpool are played out. rnDespite its vivid portrait of the horrors of the newly mechanized society. Hard Times is shot that entertainment is wssential for human happiness, making it one of the most uplofting of Dickens's novels.

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Series Title

Penguin Popular Classics

Call Number

823 DIC h

Publisher

London : Penguin Books., 1994

Collation

p. 280: 18 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

140620443

Classification

English Fiction/Fiksi Inggris, Prosa Ing

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Edition

Cet.1, 1994

Subject(s)

English Fiction
Classics novel

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