Hard Times = Hard Times

Author: (English) Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: In the industrial town of Coketown, people are confined and enslaved, lacking personal freedom. The so-called "educator" Gradgrind advocates a suffocatingly inhuman educational method, which ultimately stifles the natural inclinations of his own children. Meanwhile, the wealthy Pondereev of Coketown, in his effort to maintain the false image of "self-made success," abandons his birth mother and ends up ostracized by all. This book is another masterpiece by Charles Dickens, a renowned 19th-century British critical realist writer. The novel portrays the profit-driven nature of the bourgeoisie, the poverty and suffering of the working class, as well as the conflicts and struggles between labor and capital. With a near-cartoon-like style, the author masterfully showcases a series of typical character personalities. This is the English edition.