Hard times / Charles Dickens.

By:

Dickens, Charles [author. ]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Arcturus, c2016.Description: 253 pISBN:

9781782124191

Uniform titles:

Hard times

Subject(s):

Industrial revolution -- England -- Fiction England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction. Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

Summary: Hard times The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with it's belching chimneys, purple-dyed river and hordes of downtrodden mill hands. Here headmaster Thomas Gradgrind sternly prepares his pupils for their pre-determined fate as industrial fodder. facts and figures are all that he will tolerate, because he scorns 'fancy' and forbids any use of the imagination.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	EIS Library Main Library	English Fiction Adolescent-Adult	EFA/ CL/ DIC H258	Available		E0005015

Hard times The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with it's belching chimneys, purple-dyed river and hordes of downtrodden mill hands. Here headmaster Thomas Gradgrind sternly prepares his pupils for their pre-determined fate as industrial fodder. facts and figures are all that he will tolerate, because he scorns 'fancy' and forbids any use of the imagination.

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