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Hard Times Paperback – 5 May 2003

by Charles Dickens (Author)

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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.

Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her published work includes The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (2000).

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 014143967X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (5 May 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141439679
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141439679
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.21 cm

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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
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Gage McWeeny is Associate Professor of English at Williams College. His writing interests range from the rise of non-lethal weapons, published in the journal Cabinet, to the relationship between literature and sociology.
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