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Hard Times by Charles Dickens

About 669 pages (200,766 words) in 42 products

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Author Biography

Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens
Birth Date: February 7, 1812
Death Date: 1870
Place of Birth: Port-sea, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist, journalist

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Biography of Charles John Huffam Dickens
17877 words, approx. 59.6 pages
The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...
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Biography of Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
17117 words, approx. 57.1 pages
The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...
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Biography of Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
13529 words, approx. 45.1 pages
From the appearance of his first full-length work of prose fiction, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, in 1836-1837, Charles Dickens has retained his place as one of the best-loved and most widely read novelists in the world. Not so well known i...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Hard Times Information
5,252 words, approx. 18 pages
<i>Hard Times</i> is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is one of a number of state-of-the-nation novels published around the same time, another being <i>North and South</i> by Elizabeth Gaskell (also published in Dickens's...


News and Journals
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Shannon: 'Hard times' to 'Canes coach
12/9/2006: 781 words, approx. 3 pages
Once surrounded by bad examples and now surrounded by cameras and microphones, new Miami Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon politely declines to talk about the worst trouble he ever got into."Oh, I can't say that," he says. "I was in elementary school or junior high. It's...
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Richie, Lohan avoid hard time
8/24/2007: 733 words, approx. 2 pages
Lindsay Lohan agreed to serve one day behind bars after pleading guilty to drunken driving and cocaine charges. But that's hard time compared to what fellow bad girl Nicole Richie served for driving under the influence.Richie was released from jail after just 82 minutes Thursday,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by F. R. Leavis
9,251 words, approx. 31 pages
Leavis was an influential twentieth-century English critic. His methodology combines close textual criticism with predominantly moral and social concerns; however, Leavis is not interested in the individual writer per se, but rather with the usefulness of his or her art in the scheme of civilization. The essay reprinted below, which appeared in its present form in 1948, is widely considered the seminal (and most controversial) essay on Hard Times published in the twentieth century. Here, elaborating on cla...
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Critical Essay by David Craig
8,642 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Craig details Dickens's use of cultural and popular elements in Hard Times.
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Critical Essay by David Sonstroem
8,040 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Sonstroem identifies conflict between Fact—dry statistics and empirical definitions—and Fancy—variously identified with imagination, romance, wonder, and nonsense—as central to the structure of Hard Times.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Criticism of People and Society in Hard Times
4,180 words, approx. 14 pages
Analyzes the first 7 chapters of the Charles Dickens novel, Hard Times. Discusses what message Dickens is trying to portray to the reader. Examines issues such as value judgements of people and family values.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Fact and Fancy in Hard Times
3,493 words, approx. 12 pages
Explores the thematic opposition between fact and fancy, or 'the head' and 'the heart' in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times. Explores the rivalry between these philosophies as a central theme to the Hard Times, as well as a fundamental crux of human existence.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Criticizing Society, Pre 1914 Prose
2,269 words, approx. 8 pages
Describes how a number of pre 1914 writers use their text to criticize society. Includes a look at Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, Hard Times by Charles Dickens and works by Jonathan Swift. Discusses how all the writers make their points in different ways.
 


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Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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