EAN: 9788027385133

HARD TIMES - CHARLES DICKENS TASCHENBUCH

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens and tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind
and her father. When Louisa  trapped in a loveless marriage  falls prey to an idle seducer  the
crisis forces her father to reconsider his cherished system. Yet even as the development of the
story reflects Dickens's growing pessimism about human nature and society  Hard Times marks his
return to the theme which had made his early works so popular: the amusements of the people.
Charles Dickens ( 1812 - 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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