Hard times  -  Charles Dickens

KORTE INHOUD

Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to...
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2012 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: HarperPress 370 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0007449941 ISBN-13: 9780007449941