Hard Time(Wordsworth Children's Classics) 艰难时事
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作者： Charles Dickens著
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出版时间： 1998-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 243印刷时间： 1998-1-1开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781853262326包装： 平装
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its 'sullen socialism',but 20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R.Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms,while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both Dickens' shorted completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society.
INTRODUCTION
BOOK THE FIRST-SOWING
1 The One Thing Needful
2 Murdering the Innocents
3 A Loophole
4 Mr Bounderby
5 The Key-Note
6 Sleary's Horsemanship
7 Mrs Sparsit
8 Never Wonder
9 Sissy's Progress
10 Stephen Blackpool
11 No Way Out
12 The Old Woman
13 Rachael
14 The Great Manufacturer
15 Father and Daughter
16 Husband and Wife
BOOK THE SECOND-REAPING
1 Effects in the Bank
2 Mr Fames Hartbouse
3 The Whelp
4 Men and Brotbers
5 Men and Masters
6 Fading Away
7 Gunpowder
8 Explosion
9 Hearing the Last of It
10 Mrs Sparsit's Staircase
11 Lower and Lower
12 Down
BOOK THE THIRD-GARNERING
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