Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Showing 1 - 2 of 2 matches in All Departments
Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for 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. Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its 'sullen socialism', but 20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both Dickens' shortest completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter - all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the world of the late 1820s and the forces of change within it, and her vision is always humane and progressive. The story is full of acute observation and sympathetic character-study: the feudal squire clinging to old values, his naturalist son welcoming the new world of science, the local doctor and his scheming second wife, the two girls brought together by their parent's marriage...
|
You may like...
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting…
Ignacio Rojas, Hector Pomares, …
Hardcover
R4,276
Discovery Miles 42 760
Mathematics For Engineering Students
Ramoshweu Solomon Lebelo, Radley Kebarapetse Mahlobo
Paperback
Analytic Combinatorics for Multiple…
Roy Streit, Robert Blair Angle, …
Hardcover
R3,523
Discovery Miles 35 230
Advances in Time Series Analysis and…
Ignacio Rojas, Hector Pomares, …
Hardcover
R2,859
Discovery Miles 28 590
Monte Carlo Statistical Methods
Christian Robert, George Casella
Hardcover
R4,847
Discovery Miles 48 470
Measures of Complexity - Festschrift for…
Vladimir Vovk, Harris Papadopoulos, …
Hardcover
Recent Trends in Mathematical Modeling…
Vinai K. Singh, Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, …
Hardcover
R6,226
Discovery Miles 62 260
Branching Processes in Biology
Marek Kimmel, David E Axelrod
Hardcover
R2,631
Discovery Miles 26 310
|