Hard Times , by Charles Dickens , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. 0in 0in 0pt">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 confront the results of his philosophyhis own daughter’s terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism. Karen odden received her Ph.D. from New York University, where she did her dissertation on Victorian literature. Most recently a lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she is now a freelance writer and lives in Arizona.
艰难时世通过播种、收割、归仓三卷来诠释“不要自欺,上帝是轻慢不得的。人种的是什么,收的也是什么”。而艰难时世中的这位播种这的名字是格雷戈林,一个专讲实际的会议员和理论家,一个功利主义的绝对者,信奉事实至上的原则,将邪恶的种子播撒在下一代,使女儿路易莎嫁给了...
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评分 评分艰难时世通过播种、收割、归仓三卷来诠释“不要自欺,上帝是轻慢不得的。人种的是什么,收的也是什么”。而艰难时世中的这位播种这的名字是格雷戈林,一个专讲实际的会议员和理论家,一个功利主义的绝对者,信奉事实至上的原则,将邪恶的种子播撒在下一代,使女儿路易莎嫁给了...
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