"1854. It sold well, and a complete volume was published in August, totalling 110,000 words. Another related novel, ""North and South"" by Elizabeth Gaskell, was also published in this magazine. The novel follows a classical tripartite structure, and the titles of each book are related to ""Galatians"" 6:7, ""For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."" Book I is entitled ""Sowing"", Book II is entitled ""Reaping"", and the third is ""Garnering."" Superintendent Mr. Gradgrind opens the novel at his school in Coketown stating, ""Now, what I want is, Facts"", and interrogates one of his pupils, Sissy, whose father"
"Hard Times (novel) Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. ""Hard Times"" is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, ""Hard Times"" has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London."
"figures and averages, and nothing else."" He also wished to campaign for reform of working conditions. Dickens had visited factories in Manchester as early as 1839, and was appalled by the environment in which workers toiled. Drawing upon his own childhood experiences, Dickens resolved to ""strike the heaviest blow in my power"" for those who laboured in horrific conditions. John Stuart Mill had a similar, rigorous education to that of Louisa Gradgrind, consisting of analytical, logical, mathematical, and statistical exercises. In his twenties, Mill had a nervous breakdown, believing his capacity for emotion had been enervated by his father's stringent"
"Gradgrind Mr Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's novel ""Hard Times"" who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise. His name is now used generically to refer to someone who is hard and only concerned with cold facts and numbers. In the story, the man himself he was the father of five children, naming them after prominent utilitarians such as Robert Malthus. He also ran a model school where young pupils were treated as machines pitchers which were to be filled to the brim with facts. This satirised Scottish philosopher James Mill who attempted to"
"the poor and condemned the public officials and institutions that not only allowed such abuses to exist, but flourished as a result. His most strident indictment of this condition is in ""Hard Times"" (1854), Dickens's only novel-length treatment of the industrial working class. In this work, he uses vitriol and satire to illustrate how this marginalised social stratum was termed ""Hands"" by the factory owners; that is, not really ""people"" but rather only appendages of the machines they operated. His writings inspired others, in particular journalists and political figures, to address such problems of class oppression. For example, the prison"
"Deb McAndrew and directed by Conrad Nelson. The novel has also been adapted twice as a mini-series for British television, once in 1977 with Patrick Allen as Gradgrind, Timothy West as Bounderby, Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Sparsit and Edward Fox as Harthouse, and again in 1994 with Bob Peck as Gradgrind, Alan Bates as Bounderby, Dilys Laye as Mrs. Sparsit, Bill Paterson as Stephen, Harriet Walter as Rachael and Richard E. Grant as Harthouse. Hard Times (novel) Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The"
"lenders, the corruption and incompetence of the legal system, as well as of the administration of the Poor Law. Dickens was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address, he expressed his belief that, ""Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."" Dickens's second novel, ""Oliver Twist"" (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime: it destroyed middle class polemics about criminals, making any pretence to ignorance about what poverty entailed impossible. Charles Dickens's ""Hard Times"" (1854) is set in"
"had diverse opinions on the novel. John Ruskin declared ""Hard Times"" to be his favourite Dickens work due to its exploration of important social questions. However, Thomas Macaulay branded it ""sullen socialism"", on the grounds that Dickens did not fully comprehend the politics of the time. George Bernard Shaw argued ""Hard Times"" to be a novel of ""passionate revolt against the whole industrial order of the modern world."" But he criticised the novel for failing to provide an accurate account of trade unionism of the time, arguing that Slackbridge, the poisonous orator, was ""a mere figment of middle-class imagination."" Believing"
"a small Midlands industrial town. It particularly criticizes the effect of Utilitarianism on the lives of the working classes in cities. John Ruskin declared ""Hard Times"" to be his favourite Dickens' work due to its exploration of important social questions. Walter Allen characterised ""Hard Times"" as being an unsurpassed ""critique of industrial society"", though later superseded by works of D. H. Lawrence. Karl Marx asserted that Dickens ""issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together"". On the other hand, George Orwell, in his essay on"
"""""Gradgrind, a character in ""Hard Times,"" who weighs and measures everything by a hard and fast rule and makes no allowances. """" (from the Gurenberg Project's version). Gradgrind Mr Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's novel ""Hard Times"" who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise. His name is now used generically to refer to someone who is hard and only concerned with cold facts and numbers. In the story, the man himself he was the father of five children, naming them after prominent utilitarians such as Robert Malthus. He also ran a model school"
"to ignorance about what poverty entailed impossible. Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854) is set in a small Midlands industrial town and particularly criticizes the effect of Utilitarianism on the lives of cities' working classes. John Ruskin declared ""Hard Times"" his favourite Dickens work due to its exploration of important social questions. Walter Allen characterised ""Hard Times"" as an unsurpassed ""critique of industrial society"", ""This is a list of a few of the early or notable examples; others belong on the main list"" Political fiction Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction,"
"Edward Dickens Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (13 March 1852 – 23 January 1902) was the youngest son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He immigrated to Australia at the age of 16, and eventually entered politics, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1894. He died in poverty at the age of 49. Nicknamed ""Plorn"", Dickens was clearly named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton — nowadays much satirised for the famous opening line of his 1830 novel ""Paul Clifford"", ""It was a dark and stormy night"" — and educated at Tunbridge Wells"
"men had abandoned the island. With military tension rising and the schoolroom growing over with creepers, Watts decides to take on the task of educating the children. Despite his claim to be limited in intelligence, he introduces the students to one of the greatest English authors, Charles Dickens. Dolores, Matilda's overzealous Christian mother, expresses an extreme distrust of the teacher and his curriculum. She does everything in her power to ensure that her daughter's mind is not polluted by the strange white man, including making weekly visits to the classroom. She even goes as far as stealing and hiding Watts's"
"fighting."" The quote is taken from the essay ""A Poet's Advice to Students,"" which appeared in the book ""E. E. Cummings, A Miscellany."" Dade Hamilton is 16 years old and trying to enjoy the summer after his high school graduation. He has a part-time job at Food World, a local supermarket. Dade has come out gay to himself, but not anyone else. His father, Ned, sells luxury automobiles and his mother, Peggy, is an art teacher at a local Roman Catholic parochial school. They live in Cedarville, a fictional city in Iowa. For several years, Peggy has struggled with depression,"
"The Insolvent Debtors Act 1842 allowed non-traders to begin bankruptcy proceedings for relief from debts. However, conditions remained an object of social disapprobation. The novelist Charles Dickens, whose own father had been imprisoned at Marshalsea while he was a child, pilloried the complexity and injustice through his books, especially ""David Copperfield"" (1850), ""Hard Times"" (1854) and ""Little Dorrit"" (1857). Around this very time reform began. The difficulties for individuals to be discharged from debt in bankruptcy proceedings and the awfulness of debtors prison made the introduction of modern companies legislation, and general availability of limited liability, all the more urgent."
"Green, and Frank Arlton. Hard Cash (novel) Hard Cash, A Matter-of-Fact Romance is an 1863 novel by Charles Reade. The novel is about the poor treatment of patients in private insane asylums, and was part of Reade's drive to reform and improve those institutions. It was originally serialised under the title ""Very Hard Cash"" in Charles Dickens' ""All the Year Round"" from 28 March to 26 December 1863, but the magazine's family readers blanched at Reade's strong attacks on asylums, so it did not perform well and actually depressed sales of the periodical. Dickens appended a note to the last"
"principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight. . . At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed. . . It is not light that is needed, but fire. It is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. . . “ Knowledge is too readily available, Douglass said, and soon the American people will open their eyes to the atrocities they have been inflicting on their fellow Americans. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and"
"changed it to ‘Boys,’ making this statement: ‘I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. ‘Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!’ The"
"develop his sons into perfect utilitarians. His physical description personified this characterisation of the rigid and insistent pedagogue: In a famous passage, a visiting official asks Gradgrind's students ""Suppose you were going to carpet a room. Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?"" The character Sissy Jupe replies, ingenuously, that she would because, ""If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers."" Gradgrind is the most dynamic character in ""Hard Times"" since he comes to recognize that emotions are important when his daughter Louisa has an emotional breakdown. The text of the entry is"
"advocates of a negotiated peace. The first volume begins with the famous words, ""These are the times that try men's souls."" The first of the pamphlets was released during a time when the revolution was still viewed as an unsteady prospect. Its opening sentence was adopted as the watchword of the movement to Trenton. The opening lines are as follows: These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and"
"wrangles In tickle points of niceness; Tell wisdom she entangles Herself in overwiseness: And when they do reply, Straight give them both the lie. Tell physic of her boldness; Tell skill it is prevention; Tell charity of coldness; Tell law it is contention: And as they do reply, So give them still the lie. Tell fortune of her blindness; Tell nature of decay; Tell friendship of unkindness; Tell justice of delay: And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too"
"Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston. One of Dickens's reasons for writing ""Hard Times"" was that sales of his weekly periodical, ""Household Words"", were low, and it was hoped the novel's publication in instalments would boost circulation – as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and"
"Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world'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 still widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of"
"treats everyone with kindness, generosity and compassion, embodying the spirit of Christmas. The writer Charles Dickens was born to a middle class family which got into financial difficulties as a result of the spendthrift nature of his father John. In 1824 John was committed to the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison in Southwark, London. Dickens, aged 12, was forced to pawn his collection of books, leave school and work at a dirty and rat-infested shoe-blacking factory. The change in circumstances gave him what his biographer, Michael Slater, describes as a ""deep personal and social outrage"", which heavily influenced his writing and"
"for action, noted that history favors the courageous. Longfellow, who often used poetry to remind readers of cultural and moral values, warns at the end of the poem of a coming ""hour of darkness and peril and need"", implying the breakup of the Union, and suggests that the ""people will waken and listen to hear"" the midnight message again. By emphasizing common history, he was attempting to dissolve social tensions. The phrase ""Hardly a man is now alive"" was true as one of the last men alive at the time had only recently died. Jonathan Harrington, the young fifer for"
"Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (original: 1970/ latest edition: 2005) is a telling of the oral history of the Great Depression written by Studs Terkel. It is a firsthand account of people of varying socio-economic status who lived in the United States during the Great Depression. The first edition of the book was published in 1970. The 1986 print included a new introduction by Terkel. The latest edition was published in 2005. ""Hard Times"" is known for providing an equal representation of experiences across a broad spectrum"
"that it was very different from Dickens's other novels, Shaw also said: ""Many readers find the change disappointing. Others find Dickens worth reading almost for the first time."" F. R. Leavis, in ""The Great Tradition"", described the book as essentially a moral fable, and that 'of all Dickens' works (it is) the one that has all the strengths of his genius – that of a completely serious work of art'. This, however, was a view which he later revised in ""Dickens the Novelist"", which recognised that Dickens's strengths and artistry appeared fully in other works. Walter Allen characterised ""Hard Times"""
"the U.S. government, in burning books, is merely expressing the will of a people whose short attention spans, indifference, and hedonism have gradually eroded any semblance of intellectualism from public life. Schools no longer teach the humanities, children are casually violent, and adults are constantly distracted by ""seashells"" (small audio devices resembling earbuds) and insipid television programs displayed on wall-sized screens. Authors and readers are regarded as pretentious and dangerous to the well-being of society. He meets many characters that change his outlook on life such as Clarisse and Faber. After an incident where Montag tries to read a poem"
"only to defeat unless a stable army was composed, not of militia, but of trained professionals. Paine maintains a positive view overall, hoping that this American crisis could be resolved quickly, ""for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."" Crisis No. 1 starts out with the famous line ""These are the times that try men's souls,"" and goes on to opine about how Great Britain has no right to invade the colonies, saying that it is a power belonging ""only to God."" He also says that ""if being bound in that manner"
"Hard Cash (novel) Hard Cash, A Matter-of-Fact Romance is an 1863 novel by Charles Reade. The novel is about the poor treatment of patients in private insane asylums, and was part of Reade's drive to reform and improve those institutions. It was originally serialised under the title ""Very Hard Cash"" in Charles Dickens' ""All the Year Round"" from 28 March to 26 December 1863, but the magazine's family readers blanched at Reade's strong attacks on asylums, so it did not perform well and actually depressed sales of the periodical. Dickens appended a note to the last instalment noting that the"
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a Nation ravaged by depression and gripped in fear. He could say in surveying the Nation's troubles: ""They concern, thank God, only material things."" Our crisis today is the reverse. We have found ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. To a crisis of the spirit, we"
"emphasis on analysis and mathematics in his education. In the book, Louisa herself follows a parallel course, being unable to express herself and falling into a temporary depression as a result of her dry education. The bastion of fact is the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, and his model school, which teaches nothing but ""Facts"". Any imaginative or aesthetic subjects are absent from the curriculum, and analysis, deduction and mathematics are emphasised. Fancy, the opposite of Fact, is epitomised by Sleary's circus. Sleary is reckoned a fool by Gradgrind and Bounderby, but it is Sleary who understands that people must be"
"a shadow over the white road"", the snow symbolising purity and Madame Defarge's darkness corruption. Dickens also compares the dark colour of blood to the pure white snow: the blood takes on the shade of the crimes of its shedders. Charles Dickens was a champion of the poor in his life and in his writings. His childhood included some of the pains of poverty in England, as he had to work in a factory as a child to help his family. His father, John Dickens, continually lived beyond his means and eventually went to debtors' prison. Charles was forced to"