Dickens, C: Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay a...

Louisa is the practical daughter of a powerful industrialist. Sissy is the imaginative daughter of a clown. What will happen when two such differen...

This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imaginat...

'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to ...

Part of the Evergreen series, this new edition contains a wealth of material.

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family w...

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DescriptionThe shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketow...

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened...

Reducere. Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern Englan...

Reducere. "Facts alone are wanted in life." The children at Mr. Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to...

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'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everyth...

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Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, CXCLevel & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature, CAPE LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: ...

Cute Animals for Hard Times offers an adorable oasis, the tried-and-true cure for a sad day--ridiculously cute animals. In a world full of politica...

This is the eventful and often exciting life of a sailing ship man in the final half century of commercial sail. It's a compelling accounts of hero...

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Reducere. In 1930s East Texas, fourteen-year-old Amelia Laxault's father insists she marry Arnold Critchin, a local boy who assaulted her on their first date...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: New York TimesEditor: Will ShortzLife can be tough for left-handed solvers: you love crosswords, but hate smearing ink when...

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Publisher: Seashell Publishers Pty LtdAuthor(s): Andrew MatthewsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 236 x 183 x 15Cover type: Pap...

Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private se...

Filled with cartoons, and inspiring stories of people who have lost everything they had or almost been beaten by alcohol, illness, abuse or outrage...

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade: why politics has been so diffi...

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A vivid and emotional novel of post-war life in Cockney London

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DescriptionA sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: New York TimesEditor: Will ShortzA phat collection of easy to hard New York Times crossword puzzles from the 1990s.Remember...

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Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplish...

The raw, page-turning, inspiring story of Jeff Immelt's 16 years leading the iconic General ElectricPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Jeff Im...

The raw, page-turning, inspiring story of Jeff Immelt's 16 years leading the iconic General Electric

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