Industrial revolution England History 19th century Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Problèmes sociaux Grande-Bretagne Roman.
Dickens, Charles, 1812 1870 Criticism and interpretation.
Labor exploitation Great Britain History 19th century Fiction.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature anglaise.
Dickens, Charles, 1812 1870 Study and teaching.
Hard times: webster's Manx thesaurus edition
Hard times for these times, Hunted down, Holiday romance, George Silverman's explanation, and Reprinted pieces
Hard times : a novel
If you are either learning Malay, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Malay speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Malay-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Malay synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Polish thesaurus edition
Hard times: webster's Dutch thesaurus edition
Novel by Dickens set in Coketown, a fictitious Northern English mill-town of the Victorian era. The book higlights the social and economic pressures of 19th century England.
Raised during the rise of industry, Louisa, whose poor choices in later life result from too practical an upbringing, cares nothing about what happens to her.
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Hard times hunted down ; holiday romance & George Silverman's explanation
Hard Times. [Written in 1854]
Hard times : New introd. by Philip Collins
Hard times for these times, by Charles Dickens... Illustrations by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen... Introduction by Dingle Foot
Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas'and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.
Hard times: webster's Tagalog thesaurus edition
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Hard times: webster's Estonian thesaurus edition
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"Now, what I want is, Facts." With these words, Mr. Gradgrind introduces the "workful" world of Coketown, an industrial mill town of the 1840s. But the arrival of a travelling circus is to disturb the grind of both school and factory. Fact is forced to confront feelings when Gradgrind adopts Sissy, an abandoned circus child. The stage is now set for a moving story of love, betrayal and disillusion.
Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, he stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of Utilitarianism, which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
Hard times: webster's Catalan thesaurus edition
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Hard times: webster's Swedish thesaurus edition
If you are either learning Tagalog, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Tagalog speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Tagalog-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Tagalog synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
If you are either learning Danish, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Danish speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Danish-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Danish synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard Times--Dickens's shortest novel and one of his major triumphs--tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.
Self-made cotton mill owner and braggart Josiah Bounderby marries Thomsa Gradgrind, Esquire's daughter Louisa. He accuses a dismissed laborer of stealing from his bank, but the culprit turns out to be his brother-in-law.
Hard times: webster's Hebrew thesaurus edition
If you are either learning Slovak, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Slovak speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Slovak-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Slovak synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Pictures from Italy
If you are either learning Lithuanian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Lithuanian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Lithuanian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Lithuanian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Persian (farsi) thesaurus edition
Hard times. For these times
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds.
Hard times for these times : With 4 ill. by F.Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen and an introd. by Dingle Foot
Hard times for these times : with 4 illus. by F. Walker and maurice greiffenhagen and an introd. by dingle foot
" ... A blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution."--Page [4] 0f cover.
Hard Times appeared in weekly parts in Household Words in 1854, printed on the pages usually occupied by leading article on the major social issues of the day. In the overlapping worlds of Gradgrind's schoolroom, Bounderby the humbug industrialist and Sissy Jupe of Slearys' Circus, Dickens joyfully satirizes Utilitarianism, the self-help doctrines of Samuel Smiles and the mechanization of the mid-Victorian soul. Although it is often called Dickens' 'industrial novel', as Kate Flint argues in her new introduction Hard Times defies easy categorization. It is a novel deeply preoccupied with childhood and family life, bursting with unresolvable tensions and contradictions and wonderfully entertaining in its metaphorical wit and invention.
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Hard times for these times; Pictures from Italy; Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings; Mrs. Lirriper's legacy
If you are either learning Russian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Russian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Russian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Russian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
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Hard times: webster's Ukrainian (cyrillic script) thesaurus edition
'Hard Times' is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. This edition contains an appendix of the author's working notes, together with an introduction and full explanatory notes.
One of Dickens' most controversial novels, Hard Times tells the story of Thomas Gradgrind, headmaster to the child mill hands of Coketown, a downtrodden industrial centre. He attempts to stamp out whimsy and fancy in his young charges, insisting they face their reality -- a life of hard, dangerous work and a complete lack of social mobility. Throughout the novel, however, Gradgrind encounters situations that slowly erode his certainty about the morality of his position. Like much of Dickens' work, Hard Times draws attention to the social and economic ills of England during Dickens' life time.
Hard times
Hard Times For These Times
If you are either learning Catalan, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Catalan speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Catalan-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Catalan synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce and tragedy. Gradgrind's no-nonsense abhorrence of 'fancy' extends to his implementing an ambitious education scheme that aims to exclude all 'nonsense' and keep the minds of young people focused squarely on facts. The book is ultimately an argument in favor of fancy and radical thinking, and a damning critique of industrial capitalism and its exploitation and repression of the workers whose lives were spent (literally) in sustaining the system.
If you are either learning Swedish, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Swedish speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Swedish-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Swedish synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Czech thesaurus edition
Hard times: webster's Welsh thesaurus edition
Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, he stigmatised the prevalent philosophy of Utilitarianism, which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
Novel depicting Victorian industrial society.
If you are either learning Romanian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Romanian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Romanian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Romanian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Bulgarian thesaurus edition
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.' Set in fictitious Coketown, England during the Industrial Revolution of the 1850s, Dickens wished to expose the enormous gulf between the rich and poor through his writing. In Hard Times, the social and moral purpose of his work is at its most evident. Openly ironic and satirical in its tone, Dickens suggests a mechanization of society, where the wealthy are ruthless and uncharitable towards those less fortunate than themselves. Siblings Louisa and Tom Gradgrind are raised by their father, a harsh and pragmatic educator and his influence means that they go on to lead lives that are lacking in all areas. Louisa marries the arrogant and greedy Josiah Bounderby, ending in an unhappy pairing and the unfeeling and villainous Tom robs his own brother-in-law's bank. As their father watches their plight, he realises that his own principles may have led to their downfall.
Hard times for these times ; Pictures from Italy ; Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings ; Mrs. Lirriper's legacy
Hard times : For these times
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If you are either learning Latvian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Latvian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Latvian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Latvian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Presents the story of two children whose lives become bitter products of their father's educational philosophy.
If you are either learning Wolof, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Wolof speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Wolof-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Wolof synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen.
Hard times for these times : Hunted down, Holiday romance, George Silverman's explanation, and reprinted pieces
This story of class conflict in Victorian England serves as a powerful critique of the social injustices that plagued the Industrial Revolution. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ? A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information ? A chronology of the author's life and work ? A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context ? An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations ? Detailed explanatory notes ? Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ? Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction ? A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience.
Hard times: webster's Slovak thesaurus edition
Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures that some people were experiencing. Unlike other such writings at the time, the novel is unusual in that it is not set in London (as was also Dickens' usual wont), but in the fictitious Victorian industrialist Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town partially based upon 19th-century Preston. Dickens wished to satirize radical Utilitarians whom he described in a letter to Charles Knight as "see[ing] figures and averag.
If you are either learning Dutch, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Dutch speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Dutch-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Dutch synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
If you are either learning Thai, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Thai speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Thai-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Thai synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Wolof thesaurus edition
Hard times: webster's Danish thesaurus edition
The tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father. When Louisa, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls prey to an idle seducer, the crises forces her father to reconsider his cherished system of a contemporary utilitarian philosophy.
Depicts the joyless existences of the citizens of the imaginary mid-Victorian city of Coketown, whose workers toil endlessly for factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and whose students drudge for utilitarian educator Thomas Gradgrind.
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Hard times: webster's Thai thesaurus edition
Hard times for these times : [and other stories]
Hard times: webster's Lithuanian thesaurus edition
Hard Times
Hard times: webster's Croatian thesaurus edition
Hard times for these times ; Hunted down ; Holiday romance ; George Silverman's explanation
Author uses his story to attack Utilitarianism, the belief that a rational, unsentimental society based on statistics would provide the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
In the depressed mill town of Coketown, schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind lives to impose his version of education: feeding the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity, and logic over sentiment, only to have his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family. 'Hard Times' is Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy.
Hard times, a new story
This story of class conflict in Victorian England serves as a powerful critique of the social injustices that plagued the Industrial Revolution.
-- Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.
No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens exposes the devilish industries and institutions that exploited the bodies and minds of the vulnerable labor class.
Hard Times was written to 'shake some people in a terrible mistake of these days', as Dickens put in a letter to Thomas Carlyle. The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind.
Hard times For these times
Hard times: webster's Romanian thesaurus edition
If you are either learning Czech, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Czech speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Czech-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Czech synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
A tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire. Coketown, t typical red-brick industrial city of north England. Children and adults are caged and enslaved; no personal freedom and no chance of escape.
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution.Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught “nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophy—his own daughter's terrible unhappiness.Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism.Karen Odden received her Ph.D. from New York University, where she did her dissertation on Victorian literature. Most recently a lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she is now a freelance writer and lives in Arizona.
Hard times a novel
Hard times for these times : with 4 ill. by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen and an introd. by Dingle Foot
Love stories
History
Contemporary fiction. Looks at working conditions in a Victorian factory town in the industrial north of England. It's an extraordinary novel that considers how enslavement to systems at the expense of imagination and feeling can wreck human lives. This new edition celebrates Charles Dickens' most openly campaigning novel, through which the author said he aimed to ''strike the heaviest blow in my power''. Hard Times explores the important social questions of the day and places prosperity and morality under the microscope.
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Hard times for these times ; Hunted down ; Holiday romance ; George Silverman's explanation and ; Reprinted pieces
Raised during the rise of industry, Louisa, shows poor choices in later life result from too practical an upbringing, cares nothing about what happens to her.
"Thomas Gradgrind is an educator who believes only in the demonstrable fact. He raises his children, Louisa and Thomas, in a grim materialistic atmosphere that adversely affects their entire lives. 'Hard Times' is an indictment of the values of 19th century industrial England" --Provided by publisher.
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If you are either learning Swahili, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Swahili speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Swahili-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Swahili synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times for these times. Pictures from Italy. Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings. Mrs. Lirriper's legacy
Three great novels
No other work of Dickens presents so relentless an indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian indistrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy as this fiercest of his novels. With savage bitterness Dickens unmasks the hellish industries that imprisoned the bodies of the helpless labor class and the equally satanic institutions that shackled the development of their minds.
Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophy, his own daughters terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism.
In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
Hard times. : a tale of two cities [u.a.]
If you are either learning Estonian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Estonian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Estonian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Estonian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Latvian thesaurus edition
Thomas Gradgrind, retired businessman and one of Coketown's most prominent citizens, runs his life and his school along strict utilitarian lines. Fact and reason are his governing principles; imagination and sentiment are to be abhorred and suppressed. Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, by the same soulless, barren methods, blighting their young lives. Shorn of emotion because of her upbringing, Louisa yields to a loveless marriage to Gradgrind's boastful, factory-owning friend, Josiah Bounderby, which at least will help advance the career of her beloved brother. Tom, meanwhile, rebels against the strictures of his childhood by falling into dissolute ways, culminating in a plan to rob Bounderby's bank and allow a former employee to be implicated. Dickens sets imagination, compassion and humanity against the sterility of cold hard reason in Hard Times, which he described as a satire on "those who see figures and averages, and nothing else -- the representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time". -- from publisher.
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Hard times ; A tale of two cities ; Great expectations
Hard Times appeared in weekly parts in Household Words in 1854, printed on the pages usually occupied by leading article on the major social issues of the day. In the overlapping worlds of Gradgrind's schoolroom, Bounderby the humbug industrialist and Sissy Jupe of Slearys' Circus, Dickens joyfully satirizes Utilitarianism, the self-help doctrines of Samuel Smiles and the mechanization of the mid-Victorian soul.
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Thomas Gradgrind, a practical man, brings up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative and emotional sides of their natures with devastating consequences.
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Hard times ; A tale of the two cities ; Great expectations
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised in ignorance of love and affection, and the consequences are devastating. No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens exposes the devilish industries and institutions that exploited the bodies and minds of the vulnerable labour class.
Mrs. Lirriper's legacy
Hard times, for these times
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds.
Political fiction
Hard times: webster's greek thesaurus edition
Classic novel which depicts the callous nature of Victorian education, the ills of industrial society.
A story about industrial England, set in Coketown, and featuring the contrasting characters of Sleary, a circus-owner, tender-hearted Cissy Jupe, harsh schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, and the drunken Mrs. Blackpool.
Hard Times for These Times
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involment with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a varietyof characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.
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"The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind. But the novel, Dickens's shortest, is more than a polemical tract for the times; the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father is one of Dickens's triumphs. When Louisa, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls prey to an idle seducer, the crisis forces her father to reconsider his cherished system"--Publisher websit (July 2007).
If you are either learning Manx, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Manx speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Manx-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Manx synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
If you are either learning Maori, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Maori speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Maori-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Maori synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
The Oxford illustrated Dickens Hard times for these times
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he believed was destroying human creativity and joy. This edition includes new notes to the text. From the Trade Paperback edition.
If you are either learning Turkish, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Turkish speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Turkish-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Turkish synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
If you are either learning Croatian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Croatian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Croatian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Croatian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
If you are either learning Greek, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Greek speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Greek-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Greek synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
If you are either learning Hebrew, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Hebrew speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Hebrew-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Hebrew synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
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If you are either learning Norwegian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Norwegian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Norwegian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Norwegian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
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"Thomas Gradgrind is the guiding luminary of the Coketown school, stern proponent of the Philosophy of Fact, whose ill-conceived idealism blinds him to the essential humanity of those around, with calamitous results. His daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage and falls prey to an idle seducer, and her brother Tom is ruined thanks to their father's pet theories. Meanwhile Sleary's circus offers a vision of escape and entertainment, a joyful contrast to the dreariness of life in Coketown. The hardship of the workers and the victimization of Stephen Blackpool are set against the exuberance of the circus people in Dickens's much-loved moral tale. Gradgrind is forced to reconsider his cherished system when he realizes that 'Facts alone' are not, after all, enough"--Page 4 of cover.
If you are either learning Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script), or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script) speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script)-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script) synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times: webster's Turkish thesaurus edition
Charles Dickens’s moral tale of utilitarian values run amok The industrial burg of Coketown is dominated by the philosophy of utilitarianism. The mill is the center of commerce. Students in the school are instructed to recite rote facts and figures while repressing any creative instincts. Thomas Gradgrind, the school superintendent, is a strict devotee of practicality and has raised his children, Tom and Louisa, according to this philosophy. It is only Sissy Jupe, a circus girl taken in by the Gradgrinds, who possesses the vision and wonderment to see past the rigid boundaries of cold, hard facts. A paean to the human spirit, Hard Times is among Dickens’s most cutting works of social commentary. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Hard times: webster's Norwegian thesaurus edition
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Hard times: webster's Slovenian thesaurus edition
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"The proprietor of an experimental private school in an English manufacturing town, Thomas Gradgrind, a fanatic of the demonstrable fact, has raised his children Tom and Louisa in an atmosphere of grimmest practicality. Louisa marries the banker Josiah Bounderby partly to protect her brother who is in Bounderby's employ, partly because her education has resulted in an emotional atrophy that makes her indifferent to her fate. Tom, shallow and unscrupulous, robs Bounderby's bank and contrives to frame Stephen Blackpool, an honest and long-suffering mill hand. Meanwhile, Louisa's dormant emotions begin to awaken, stimulated by disgust for the vulgar Bounderby, and the attentions of the charming, amoral James Harthouse. When she runs away to her father and when Tom's guild is discovered, Gradgrind realizes how is principles have blighted his children's lives ... The novel is Dickens' harshest indictment of practices and philosophical justifications of mid-19th-century industrialism in England." Reader's Ency. 3d edition.
Hard Times, is perhaps most remarkable for its brevity. The normally prolific and wordy Dickens' short novel is a moving complaint against contemporary utilitarianism, counterbalanced by a look at the necessity of entertainment.
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Hard times: webster's Malay thesaurus edition
Charles Dickens' Hard Times has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 150 years. Now you can enjoy this classic novel, which in unusual amongst Dickens' work in that it is not set in London, but in the fictional town of Coketown, which was based on the real town of Preston. It paints a somewhat cynical view of life in an industrial English town in the 19th Century.
By 1854, when Hard times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. A classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision -- in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.
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Contains the complete text of the nineteenth-century tale of redemption in a northern English town beset by industrialism, and includes a critical introduction and chronology.
If you are either learning Persian (Farsi), or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Persian (Farsi) speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Persian (Farsi)-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Persian (Farsi) synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
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If you are either learning Welsh, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Welsh speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Welsh-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Welsh synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
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The overlapping worlds of Gradgrind's schoolroom, Bonderby the humbug industrialist and Sissy Jupe of Sleary's Circus, Dickens satirizes Utilitarianism, the self-help doctrines of Samual Smiles and the mechanization of the mid-Victorian soul.
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Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, 'Hard Times' was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age.
If you are either learning Bulgarian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Bulgarian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Bulgarian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Bulgarian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
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Murdering the innocent! Facts, facts, facts. Teach these children facts, not fancies. Sense, not sentimentality. Conformity, not curiosity. Proof and demonstration, not poetry and drama... On this bleak tenet is run the Gradgrind model day school in Hard Times. No other work of Dickens presents so relentless an indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy as this fiercest of his novels.
"Hard times" for these times, by Charles Dickens
Hard times in mid-Victorian England is Coketown, where blackened mills dominate the skyline, the rivers run purple with pollution and children are numbered instead of being names.
If you are either learning Polish, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Polish speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Polish-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Polish synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Hard times [and No thoroughfare] / by Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Charles Pears' character studies ; with an introduction by Bernard Shaw
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If you are either learning Slovenian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Slovenian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Hard Times. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Slovenian-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Slovenian synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader's exposure to the subtleties of both languages.
Thomas Gradgrind destroys the spiritual and emotional lives of his children by denying the importance of human feelings.
Hard times for these times : Pictures from Italy ; Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings ; Mrs. Lirriper's legacy
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