Hard Times: For these TimesThe Floating Press, 1 mei 2009 - 352 pagina's First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce and tragedy. Gradgrind's no-nonsense abhorrence of 'fancy' extends to his implementing an ambitious education scheme that aims to exclude all 'nonsense' and keep the minds of young people focused squarely on facts. The book is ultimately an argument in favor of fancy and radical thinking, and a damning critique of industrial capitalism and its exploitation and repression of the workers whose lives were spent (literally) in sustaining the system. |
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Chapter VII Mrs Sparsit | 78 |
Chapter VIII Never Wonder | 91 |
Chapter IV Men and Brothers | 251 |
Chapter V Men and Masters | 265 |
Chapter VI Fading Away | 278 |
Chapter VII Gunpowder | 301 |
Chapter VIII Explosion | 324 |
Chapter IX Hearing the Last of It | 348 |
Chapter X Mrs Sparsits Staircase | 363 |
Chapter XI Lower and Lower | 372 |
Chapter IX Sissys Progress | 102 |
Chapter X Stephen Blackpool | 117 |
Chapter XI No Way Out | 127 |
Chapter XII The Old Woman | 141 |
Chapter XIII Rachael | 150 |
Chapter XIV The Great Manufacturer | 165 |
Chapter XV Father and Daughter | 175 |
Chapter XVI Husband and Wife | 190 |
BOOK THE SECOND REAPING | 200 |
Chapter I Effects in the Bank | 201 |
Chapter II Mr James Harthouse | 226 |
Chapter III The Whelp | 241 |
Chapter XII Down | 388 |
BOOK THE THIRD GARNERING | 397 |
Chapter I Another Thing Needful | 398 |
Chapter II Very Ridiculous | 410 |
Chapter III Very Decided | 428 |
Chapter IV Lost | 444 |
Chapter V Found | 461 |
Chapter VI The Starlight | 477 |
Chapter VII WhelpHunting | 495 |
Chapter VIII Philosophical | 516 |
Chapter IX Final | 528 |
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