Hard Times - Charles Dickens - Bücher - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781535291279 - 4. September 2016
Bei Nichtübereinstimmung von Cover und Titel gilt der Titel

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times

Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston. Dickens wished to satirise radical Utilitarians whom he described in a letter to Charles Knight as "seeing figures and averages, and nothing else." He also wished to campaign for reform of working conditions. Dickens had visited factories in Manchester as early as 1839, and was appalled by the environment in which workers toiled. Drawing upon his own childhood experiences, Dickens resolved to "strike the heaviest blow in my power" for those who laboured in horrific conditions.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 4. September 2016
ISBN13 9781535291279
Verlag Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Seitenanzahl 146
Maße 152 × 229 × 8 mm   ·   204 g
Sprache Englisch  

Alle anzeigen

Weitere Titel von Charles Dickens

Andere haben auch gekauft

Andere Titel dieser Serie