Nov 20, 2006 02:21 PM
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Hard Times novel is written by Charles Dickens published in 1854 in Great Britain. It is significant for being the shortest of his full novels. The book is one of a number of state of the nation novels published around the same time.
This book is not so popular like Charles' other work. When I was in school I read Oliver Twist, A Tale of two cities, and Great Expectations, while reading Great Expectation believe me I felt my self as Pip and started to love Estela, the main character of Great Expecation.
Dickens is always generous, he is generally kind-hearted, he is often sentimental, he is sometimes intolerably maudlin; but you never know when you will not come upon one of the convictions of Dickens.
Hard Times which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures some people were under. the novel is unusual, in that it is not set in London, as is Dickens' usual wont, but the fictitious Victorian industrial town of Coketown. I read a little on a website...also the character's name was difficulty to pronounce for me like Suissy, Bringandy...Mr. Gradgrin's obsession with facts ony, and his punishment of children who wonder about something are worth no more than a short story, so it's not a novel. Novelist prepare script in a circus where youngers stay there, at last they caught in a robbery case, and from there they had to seperated.
Hard Times is the first of Dickens' novel which have been unable to enjoy readers and become a tiresome rant.
And I think this book is a great despite all of the other comments made by other readers. Dickens makes it work every time. He ties the whole story together.
