Dickens, Charles
Hard Times - Norton Critical Editions
- ISBN 13:
- 9780393284386
- author:
- Dickens, Charles
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- WW Norton & Co
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 512
- Dimensions:
- 21.3 x 13.2 x 2.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction, Classic fiction, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Hard Times is a novel set in a fictional English mill-town, exploring the lives of its inhabitants in the mid-19th century. The story follows the struggles of the town's wealthy elite and its poor workers, highlighting the stark contrasts of their lives.
This Norton Critical Edition features the 1854 first edition of the novel, with new edits incorporating recent scholarly findings. The text is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, illustrations, and photographs, as well as an introduction that provides a twenty-first century analysis of the novel's social, economic, and political themes.
The edition also includes a collection of eighteen essays on Hard Times, covering various aspects of the novel, from its literary art to its connections to the natural world and the study of law.
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