“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”
? Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era.
Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead, the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town.
The story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality. A classic audiobook publishing event. Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”
? Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era.
Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead, the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town.
The story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality. A classic audiobook publishing event. Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
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Charles John Huffam Dickens föddes i Portsmouth i England 1812. När Charles var tio år gammal flyttade familjen till London. Hans far fick ekonomiska problem och familjen blev utfattig. Charles, som då var i tolvårsåldern, fick hjälpa till att tjäna pengar. Som barnarbetare i en skosmörjefabrik fick han arbeta tolv timmar om dygnet, men lönen var så liten att han knappt hade råd att äta sig mätt.Hans skolgång blev det inte mycket med, men som tonåring lärde han sig att stenografera och blev senare journalist. Han reste runt i Storbritannien för att bevaka valkampanjer och rapportera från parlamentsdebatter. Dickens anses som en av de största engelskspråkiga författarna och var den mest framträdande romanförfattaren under den viktorianska eran. Ett mått på hans popularitet är att ingen av hans romaner eller noveller har slutat tryckas på engelska. Dickens skrev huvudsakligen följetongsromaner, vilket var en vanlig form för skönlitteratur på den tiden.Några av Charles Dickens övriga böcker, som alla publicerades som följetongsromaner innan de kom ut i bokform, är bl.a. Pickwickklubben, Nicholas Nickleby, och David Copperfield. Dickens dog 9 juni 1870 i sitt hem efter ett slaganfall. Han var då 58 år gammal.
