– "Hard Times" finner sted i en typisk engelsk industriby på 1800-tallet. Her er menneskene styrt av fakta, arbeiderne av de rike, og alle av tidens konvensjoner. Vi følger skjebnene til arbeideren Stephen Blackpool og rikmannsdatteren Louisa Gradgrind mens de strever for å få et godt liv i dette samfunnet, men tragedien er som alltid for Dickens nærmere enn lykken. Dette er en sterkt ironisk roman, som kritiserer samfunnet hardt slik det var da Dickens levde. Hovedobjektivet er å gjøre narr av og å gjøre folk oppmerksomme på det latterlige ved dem som styrte. Men det er også en rørende fortelling om mennesker som får livene sine ødelagt av miljøet rundt dem. Likevel finnes det håp om at ting kan endre seg og at mennesker kan innse sine feil. Denne optimistiske tonen, kombinert med den ironiske humoren, gjør dette til en av mine favorittbøker av Dickens.
Hard Times
'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'
Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds.
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'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'
Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in crime. As their fortunes cross with those of a free-spirited circus girl and a victimized weaver, Gradgrind is forced to question everything he believes in.
Edited with an Introduction and notes by KATE FLINT
Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in crime. As their fortunes cross with those of a free-spirited circus girl and a victimized weaver, Gradgrind is forced to question everything he believes in.
Edited with an Introduction and notes by KATE FLINT
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780141439679
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Serie
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Penguin Classics S.
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