by Charles Dickens, Roland John · Longman Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582538313
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«Hard Times» is the novel by Charles Dickens adapted by Roland John, published by Longman in paperback (110 pages, in English).
In the industrial city of Coketown, the novel shows the harsh living and working conditions of the working class during the Industrial Revolution. Through its characters, Dickens criticises utilitarian philosophy and addresses education, family and morality, with a portrait of the dehumanisation produced by materialism.
Longman Structural Readers Collection, Stage 5; abridged and simplified edition by Roland John, with reproductions of paintings and drawings by L. S. Lowry. The original work was published in 1854.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language and school reading, within the Longman Structural Readers series.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
