01642cam a2200301 i 4500 623634130 TxAuBib 20000720120000.0 890114s1987||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u MRC05483876 9780192545152 0192545159 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL MvI TxAuBib rda Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times for these times / with four illus. by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen and an introd. by Dingle Foot. Oxford University Press, 1987. 299 pages : illustrations. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Set in Coketown, which is based on the author's observations of Preston, Hard Times is Dickens's classic work about industrial England. G.K. Chesterton wrote of this novel, 'Twenty times we have taken Dickens's hand and it has been sometimes hot with revelry and sometimes weak with weariness; but this time we start a little, for...we realize that we have touched his gauntlet of steel.' Others have seen a more complete vision of humanity in the novel's portrayal of the generous hearts of Sleary, the circus-owner, and Cissy Jupe, contrasted with the selfishness and harshness of Thomas Gradgrind and other characters who suppress love and imagination. 1060L Lexile. 20000720. Walker, F., illustrator. Greiffenhagen, Maurice, 1862-1931, illustrator. Foot, Dingle, 1905-1978. TXKPL