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Title: Hard Times: Macmillan Collector’s Edition
Author: DICKENS CHARLES
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 13/09/2016
Imprint: MACMILLAN COLLECTOR’S LIBRARY
Price: $17.00
Publishing status: Active
A novel of social and moral themes, <b><i>Hard Times</i></b> is the archetypal Dickens novel, filled with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. Published in 1854, it is set in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston, and tells the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, a man obsessed with misguided 'Utilitarian' values that make him trust facts, statistics and practicality over emotion. Based on James Mill (the Utilitarian leader), Gradgrind raises his own children, Louisa and Tom, in line with these same views, forcing an artless existence on them. Contemporary critics such as Macaulay savaged the book for its supposed 'sullen socialism' but it has become well regarded since earning the favour of George Bernard Shaw.
This <b>Macmillan Collector's Library</b> edition is illustrated by Harry French, with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the <b>Macmillan Collector's Library</b> is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. <b>Macmillan Collector's Library</b> are books to love and treasure.
Series: Macmillan Collector’s Edition
ISBN: 9781509825431
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 150mm X 93mm
Pages: 416