Hard Times - Dickens, Charles
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Hard Times is one of the most popular novels by Charles Dickens. First published in 1854, the book chronicles the then English society and satirizes the socio- economic conditions of the era. It is the shortest of Dickens?s novels in which the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, One is easily carried away by its description in the novel that says, ?It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it?? Hard Times has been one of Dickens? best-sellers and widely taught in schools. The novel was serialized before the…mehr

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Hard Times is one of the most popular novels by Charles Dickens. First published in 1854, the book chronicles the then English society and satirizes the socio- economic conditions of the era. It is the shortest of Dickens?s novels in which the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, One is easily carried away by its description in the novel that says, ?It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it?? Hard Times has been one of Dickens? best-sellers and widely taught in schools. The novel was serialized before the complete volume of the book was published. Hard Times follows a classical three-way structure in which first part of the book is entitled ?Sowing?, second part is ?Reaping?, and the third is ?Garnering.? In order to expose his views on the right of the common man, Dickens uses the character of Sleary, proprietor of Sleary?s Circus.
Autorenporträt
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) var þekktur enskur skáldsagnahöfundur og samfélagsgagnrýnandi, almennt talinn einn af merkustu rithöfundum Viktoríutímans. Dickens fæddist í Portsmouth á Englandi og upplifði erfiða æsku, sem einkenndist af fjárhagserfiðleikum, sem síðar hafði áhrif á mikið af skrifum hans. Dickens öðlaðist frægð með raðmyndasögum og varð þekktur fyrir hæfileika sína til að sameina húmor, mikla félagslega athugun og djúpt mannlegar persónur. Verk hans varpa ljósi á baráttu fátækra, galla stofnanakerfa og mikið misræmi á milli þjóðfélagsstétta í Englandi á 19. öld. Í dag er Dickens ekki aðeins fagnað fyrir sannfærandi frásagnir heldur einnig fyrir varanleg áhrif hans á bókmenntir og samfélag.