Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions, Criticism by Charles Dickens, George H. Ford, Sylvère Monod

Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions, Criticism

Charles Dickens, George H. Ford, Sylvère Monod

434 pages • first pub 1854 (editions)

fiction classics emotional slow-paced
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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 ...

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