Description

Hard Times Charles Dickens

Set 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. Based on the author’s observations of Preston, Hard Times is Dickens’s classic work about industrial England.

Features;

• The Nonesuch Press Edition
• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2007
• Burgundy Quarter Bound Leather with Cloth Sides Hardback 277pp
• Original engravings by Fred Walker
• Size 270mm x 180mm, 1.5kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Condition

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