Hard Times 12685
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby.
However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and ласкавою people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its 'sullen socialism', but 20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F. R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers over the world have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both Dickens' shortest completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society.
- АвторDickens C.
- МоваАнглійська
- Рік2004
- Сторінок272
- Формат130х200 мм
- ОбкладинкаМ'яка
- Тип паперуГазетний
- ІлюстраціїЧорно-білі
- СеріяClassics
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Відділення Нова Пошта80 ₴
Поштомат Нова Пошта80 ₴
Кур’єр Нова Пошта120 ₴
Відділення УкрПошта50 ₴
Кур’єр за адресою90 ₴
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