Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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Graham Law's edition of Hard Times is the most useful edition for teaching Dickens that I have seenIts text is authoritative, and the range of contextual documents included gives readers an opportunity to situate the work in the discussions of industrialization and labor as they took place in nineteenth-century England." - Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University

"This beautifully produced edition combines a freshly written, informative introduction with helpful and well-judged notes. Particularly welcome is the wealth of documentary material and examples carefully chosen from other contemporary fiction, enabling readers to place Hard Times within its full Victorian context. This is an excellent edition—clear, authoritative and stimulating." - Kate Flint, University of Oxford

Graham Law, a Professor of English at Waseda University, Japan, is the author of a variety of books and articles on nineteenth-century and modern fiction; he has also edited two other Broadview Literary Texts series editions: Great Expectations (with Adrian Pinnington) and The Evil Genius.

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ISBN 13	9781551110752
ISBN 10	155111075X
Titel	Hard Times
Autor	Charles Dickens
Serie	Broadview Editions
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-03-30
Seitenanzahl	460
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