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.

Title: Kallistratus; an autobiography ... With illustrations by M. Greiffenhagen.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The NOVELS OF THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection includes major and minor works from a period which saw the development and triumph of the English novel. These classics were written for a range of audiences and will engage any reading enthusiast. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Gilkes, Arthur Herman; Greiffenhagen, Maurice; 1897. 241 p.; 8 . 012625.l.20.

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Title: Cleopatra, being an account of the fall and vengeance of Harmachis, the royal Egyptian, as set forth by his own hand. A novel, with illustrations by R. C. Woodville and Maurice Greiffenhagen.] L.P.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Haggard, H. Rider; Greiffenhagen, Maurice; Woodville, Richard Caton; 1889. xviii. 336 p.; 8 . 12625.t.1.

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"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.

"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.

This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LAGGAED FAME After much toil and passion A poet learned to wear A smile for life's poor fashion, A mask for biting care. He, faithful to his art, sings, Mocking his sense of wrong, Pain's finger on his heart-strings? Sweet music in his song. Now Fortune seeks a meeting, She calls his name one morrow; She gets strange tears for greeting; He'd laughed too long with sorrow. TO TWO FEIENDS In Memory Of Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe. Old friends! old friends, the name Rings doubly good Now, as we count the loss Of his fair manlihood, Now, as we cry in bitterness and blame, Behold! his life is gone? Lost with the flotsam and the dross? Inconsequently caught in the ever-lengthening, wan Trooping of Death, who hunts in merry and un- tiring mood The loved, the beautiful, the brave. O! could not then the grave? The horrible, insatiate? Be this time propitiate With lesser souls than his, whose soul had grown Melodiously in concord with our own. Unto my friends who doubted, wept, despaired, Disputed, argued, while there yet remained Uncertainties, and hope with time was gained? Unto my friends: "If he be gone, if he, indeed, has fared Beyond these bounds of complex destiny, O, remember and be cheered? Those who were dear on earth are more endeared, The thing that pained no longer pains. Down the cold corridors, within the silent alcoves of the dead, The great renunciations are as stored gains, The once poor negatives of life shine newly, bright As jewels indiademed. Obliterate the dread Compressed within that day of troubles, that horrific night." Comrade of days?the years were yet to be? Dearest you were to my sweet friends, Through them to me; And now, alas, so soon our converse ends. 'Neath the umbrageous shadow of th...