hard times times edited introduction von dickens charles 1812 1870 (1 Ergebnisse)

PAPERBACK, cover price $8.00, very good lightly used copy, BUT with vertical crease mark on spine at about page 145. DICKENS, CHARLES. Hard times for these times. Edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint. Penguin, 2003, xli, 321pp., . Penguin classics. - "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". 9780141439679 ISBN 014143967X.