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Author: Charles Dickens
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Hard Times (Enriched Classics) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781416523734
ISBN: 1416523731
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781416523734
ISBN: 1416523731
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
Editorial Review of Hard Times (Enriched Classics)
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Customer Reviews of Hard Times (Enriched Classics)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Dickens
Review: Charles is a great author. Tough to read and understand but if you take the time and slowly read it you will understand and get something out of it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Notes overdone in part
Review: Some of the notes were helpful but a lot of them were stuff that you should know if you are a high school graduate. The book was pretty good altho the style was hard to get used to. It was very didactic but it got into a little insight into the characters as the book went on. I don't think this was one of Dicken's best books.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Memorable Characters From Dickens
Review: "Hard Times" is a minor Charles Dickens classic. Like all Charles Dickens' novels it features some great, memorable characters. The setting of the industrial city of Coketown is vividly described as a miserable, polluted town. There are some strong themes of class struggles between the working men in the factories and the harsh upper classes who seek to exploit them. Nearly all of the upper class characters are depicted in a negative light while the real heroes of the story are from the working class. As always, Dickens finds an entertaining way to shine a bright light on the social problems of Victorian-era England. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it. However, if you are choosing your first introduction to Charles Dickens, then you should pick one of his better-known novels.
Review Summary: Dickens
Review: Charles is a great author. Tough to read and understand but if you take the time and slowly read it you will understand and get something out of it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Notes overdone in part
Review: Some of the notes were helpful but a lot of them were stuff that you should know if you are a high school graduate. The book was pretty good altho the style was hard to get used to. It was very didactic but it got into a little insight into the characters as the book went on. I don't think this was one of Dicken's best books.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Memorable Characters From Dickens
Review: "Hard Times" is a minor Charles Dickens classic. Like all Charles Dickens' novels it features some great, memorable characters. The setting of the industrial city of Coketown is vividly described as a miserable, polluted town. There are some strong themes of class struggles between the working men in the factories and the harsh upper classes who seek to exploit them. Nearly all of the upper class characters are depicted in a negative light while the real heroes of the story are from the working class. As always, Dickens finds an entertaining way to shine a bright light on the social problems of Victorian-era England. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it. However, if you are choosing your first introduction to Charles Dickens, then you should pick one of his better-known novels.