Hard Times , by Charles Dickens , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. 0in 0in 0pt">Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens ’s Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens’s most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.” Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophyhis own daughter’s terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism. Karen odden received her Ph.D. from New York University, where she did her dissertation on Victorian literature. Most recently a lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she is now a freelance writer and lives in Arizona.
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評分這本書在狄更斯的小說中不算最好的,但是他在書中給我們提瞭一個問題供我們大傢思考,那就是人類是不是隻要理性,實際和功利主義,而不要感性、感情和愛。如今我們大多數人已變成瞭隻講實際的人,交朋友隻交往以後對我們有用的人;讀書隻讀勵誌類、財經類(以上兩類書,我們可...
評分 評分開頭那一段說馬的,真心震撼。現在還記得清清楚楚。那一大段描述,將孩子們被洗腦成維基百科的那種範兒,太厲害瞭。讓人痛心那些孩子,從小再沒有想象力,隻剩下一個一個明確定義的名詞,和所謂的fact。 讀到後麵會覺得無趣。原作的英文也確實不算簡單,畢竟是19世紀的作品,很...
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