Hard Times (Everyman's University Library) (Victorian, #111) (Orient Blackswan Abridged Texts)

by Charles Dickens

Fred Kaplan (Editor)

"Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions" reprints all of the documents on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism that appeared in the Second Edition, save one, and introduces new pieces by R. D. Butterworth and Thomas Carlyle.

"Criticism" collects seventeen important essays on Hard Times-seven of them new to the Third Edition-by Hippolyte Taine, John Ruskin, George Gissing, Bernard Shaw, F. R. Leavis, Monroe Engel, Robert Barnard, David Craig, David Lodge, Roger Fowler, Patricia E. Johnson, Gorman Beauchamp, Martha C. Nussbaum, David L. Cowles, Jean Ferguson Carr, Eric P. Levy, and Leona Toker.

A Chronology and revised Selected Bibliography are also included.

• ISBN10: 0393975606
• ISBN13: 9780393975604
• Publish Date: 14 February 2001 (first published 1 April 1854)
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 14 February 2017
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: WW Norton & Co
• Edition: Third Edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

A sweet, occasionally tragic tale of a family in a town ruled by fact and industry. I liked how Dickens wrote a sympathetic flawed herione in Louisa.