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Book Description
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
Unusually for Dickens, the novel is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby. Human joy is seen as the open-hearted and affectionate people act as an antidote to the ruthless behaviour Dickens presents.
From School Library Journal
Grade 7-12-Dickens' satire on the Victorian family and the philosophies of a society which sought to turn men into machines.
From AudioFile
In Dickens's story of the horrors of a utilitarian upbringing, reason and facts are everything, and imagination and creativity are nothing. The narrator's British accent goes well with Dickens's overly dramatic and lush prose. He uses different English accents for the numerous male characters, some speech defects for others and a breathy falsetto voice for all the women. While a straight rendition of the dialogue would be an improvement, luckily the story is mainly narrative. Some classics simply may not translate well either to audiobooks or to the 1990's. E.F.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Charles Dickens, published in serial form (as Hard Times: For These Times) in the periodical Household Words from April to August 1854 and in book form later the same year. The novel is a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England. Louisa and Tom Gradgrind have been harshly raised by their father, an educator, to know nothing but the most factual, pragmatic information. Their lives are devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination, and the two have little or no empathy for others. Louisa marries Josiah Bounderby, a vulgar banker and mill owner. She eventually leaves her husband and returns to her father's house. Tom, unscrupulous and vacuous, robs his brother-in-law's bank. Only after these crises does their father realize that the principles by which he raised his children have corrupted their lives.
About Author
Jane Jacobs is one of the most influential social thinkers of our times. Her books include The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Nature of Economies. She lives in Toronto.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
Sleary 说的话读得让人发指
评分The quality of Wordsworth version is fucking terrible , I mean it
评分前半部分超难读,断断续续读了n年也没看完,但结尾部分跌宕起伏,几天就看完了。狄更斯真是不折不扣的moralist~~
评分Sleary 说的话读得让人发指
评分Sleary 说的话读得让人发指
这本书在狄更斯的小说中不算最好的,但是他在书中给我们提了一个问题供我们大家思考,那就是人类是不是只要理性,实际和功利主义,而不要感性、感情和爱。如今我们大多数人已变成了只讲实际的人,交朋友只交往以后对我们有用的人;读书只读励志类、财经类(以上两类书,我们可...
评分1、奥威尔 (1)狄更斯不是“无产阶级”作家。他从不写无产阶级,在这点上他和古往今来的绝大多数小说家一样。如果要在小说,尤其是英国小说中寻找工人阶级的身影,最后只能是徒劳。狄更斯小说的中心情节几乎总是发生在中产阶级环境中。仔细研究他的小说,你会发现它们真正的题...
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