Hard Times is Dickens’s powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s.
In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby he stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of Utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
In a very good condition. Some light creasing to the spine. See photos for more …
In a good condition. There is minimal creasing to the spine and some cover edges …