Hard Times is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby. The practical Mr. Gradgrind, teaches nothing but facts, eradicating any imaginative or aesthetic...
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Hard Times is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby. The practical Mr. Gradgrind, teaches nothing but facts, eradicating any imaginative or aesthetic subjects while Mr. Bounderby superintends through calculating tabular statements and statistics. Cover -- Title -- Book First - Sowing -- 1 - The One Thing Needful -- 2 - Murdering the Innocents -- 3 - A Loophole -- 4 - Mr. Bounderby -- 5 - The Keynote -- 6 - Sleary's Horsemanship -- 7 - Mrs. Sparsit -- 8 - Never Wonder -- 9 - Sissy's Progress -- 10 - Stephen Blackpool -- 11 - No Way Out -- 12 - The Old Woman -- 13 - Rachael -- 14 - The Great Manufacturer -- 15 - Father and Daughter -- 16 - Husband and Wife -- Book Second - Reaping -- 1 - Effects in the Bank -- 2 - Mr. James Harthouse -- 3 - The Whelp -- 4 - Men and Brothers -- 5 - Men and Masters -- 6 - Fading Away -- 7 - Gunpowder -- 8 - Explosion -- 9 - Hearing the Last of It -- 10 - Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase -- 11 - Lower and Lower -- 12 - Down -- Book Third - Garnering -- 1 - Another thing Needful -- 2 - Very Ridiculous -- 3 - Very Decided -- 4 - Lost -- 5 - Found -- 6 - The Starlight -- 7 - Whelp-Hunting -- 8 - Philosophical -- 9 - Final -- Explore Other Engage Classic Titles.
Set in London at the time of the Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge interweaves a murder mystery with the story of Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices. The brilliant descriptions of the destruction of Newgate prison by the...
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Set in London at the time of the Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge interweaves a murder mystery with the story of Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices. The brilliant descriptions of the destruction of Newgate prison by the rioters contain some of Dickens's most vivid writing. This edition uses the forthcoming Clarendon text and includes all the original illustrations, plus illuminating introduction and notes. Cover Page -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Note on the Illustrations -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Charles Dickens -- Map: London at the time of the Gordon Riots, 1780 -- BARNABY RUDGE -- Preface 1841 -- Preface 1849 -- BARNABY RUDGE -- CHAPTER THE FIRST -- CHAPTER THE SECOND -- CHAPTER THE THIRD -- CHAPTER THE FOURTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTH -- CHAPTER THE SIXTH -- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH -- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH -- CHAPTER THE NINTH -- CHAPTER THE TENTH -- CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH -- CHAPTER THE TWELFTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH -- CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH -- CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH -- CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH -- CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH -- CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH -- CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIRST -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-THIRD -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FOURTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIFTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SIXTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-EIGHTH -- CHAPTER THE THIRTY-NINTH -- CHAPTER THE FORTIETH -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIRST -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-SECOND -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-THIRD -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-FOURTH -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIFTH -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-SIXTH -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-SEVENTH -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-EIGHTH -- CHAPTER THE FORTY-NINTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTIETH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIRST -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SECOND -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-THIRD -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FOURTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIFTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SIXTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SEVENTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-EIGHTH -- CHAPTER THE FIFTY-NINTH.