{"product_id":"hard-times-2","title":"Hard Times","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHard Times\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCharles Dickens\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780307947208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, \u003ci\u003eHard Times \u003c\/i\u003eis also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e was born of its author's indignation at the soul-crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters--Mr. Gradgrind, whose utilitarian educational philosophy emotionally cripples his own children; the hypocritical factory owner Josiah Bounderby; Stephen Blackpool, an honest worker wrongly accused of a crime; and Sissy Jupe, a circus performer whose father abandons her to what he hopes is a better life--all come alive in classic Dickensian fashion, and contribute to a satiric vision of society tempered equally by righteous anger and compassionate humanity.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Hard Times | Charles Dickens | Paperback | 9780307947208 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1742368","offer_id":50897161945346,"sku":"1742368","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71jllkztBWL.jpg?v=1793168097","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/hard-times-2","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}