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Hard Times by Charles Dickens. New York. 1961. Signet/New American Library. Afterword By Charles Shapiro. CP259. 301 pages. Cover art by Milton Glaser.

 

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sc hard times cd79   Murdering the Innocent! Facts, Facts, Facts. Teach these children facts, not fancies. Sense, not sentimentality. Conformity, not curiosity. Proof and demonstration, not poetry and drama. On this bleak tenet is run the Gradgrind model day school in HARD TIMES. No other work of Dickens presents so relentless an indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy as this fiercest of his novels. With savage bitterness Dickens unmasks the hellish industries that imprisoned the bodies of the helpless labor class and the equally satanic institutions that shackled the development of their minds. 'Carlyle never voiced a more burning denunciation of the dismal science of classical economic theory.' - Edgar Johnson. 'This is Karl Marx, Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris, Carpenter, rising up against civilization itself as a disease.' - G. Bernard Shaw.

 

Dickens CharlesCharles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

 


 

 

 


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