Unusually tor Dickens. Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to ‘Mr Sleary’s Horse-Riding’ circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown..
Hard Times
Иностранные языкиUnusually tor Dickens. Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to ‘Mr Sleary’s Horse-Riding’ circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown..
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Вес | 7 унция |
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Габариты | 8.5 × 5.7 × 1.0 дюйм |
ISBN | 978-1-85326-232-6 |
EAN | 9781853262326 |
Формат | 84×108/32 |
Издательство | |
Серия | |
Переплет | Мягкий переплет |
Автор | |
Стандарт | 80 |
Дата получения | 26.01.2011 |
Год выпуска | |
Количество страниц | 243 |
SKU | 77430 |
Формат, мм\см | 130×200 |