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HARD TIMES
5,00€
Auteur(s)
Dickens, Charles
Éditeur(s)
Wordsworth
Genre
Littérature classique / Classics
DISPONIBILITE
disponible sur commande
Date de parution
05/01/1995
Format
198.00 x 129.00 mm
Nombre de pages
272
Support
Paperback B-format
EAN
9781853262326
Resumé
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.
