A high-school shooting costs four students their lives & 15-year-old Ethan Chiles his future Now he's got 50 years of hard time to look forward to Something powerful has been growing within Ethan & on the day of his sentencing it escapes at last It will change a life that has already been completely changed It will follow him into the savage environment of a maximum security prison where each day is a struggle for survival Will it be a source of massive power a chance at redemption or the cruelest of curses? In this second Hard Time collection Ethan leaves solitary confinement & rejoins the prison's general population But can his strange power keep him & his few friends alive? ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics ‘ It was a town of red brick or of brick that would have been red if the smoke & ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red & black like the painted face of a savage’ Set in fictitious Coketown England during the Industrial Revolution of the 1850s Dickens wished to expose the enormous gulf between the rich & poor through his writing In Hard Times the social & moral purpose of his work is at its most evident Openly ironic & satirical in its tone Dickens suggests a mechanization of society where the wealthy are ruthless & uncharitable towards those less fortunate than themselves Siblings Louisa & Tom Gradgrind are raised by their father a harsh & pragmatic educator & his influence means that they go on to lead lives that are lacking in all areas Louisa marries the arrogant & greedy Josiah Bounderby ending in an unhappy pairing & the unfeeling & villainous Tom robs his own brother-in-law’s bank As their father watches their plight he realises that his own principles may have led to their downfall ...

A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism & the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution Charles Dickens&s Hard Times is edited with an introduction & notes by Kate Flint in Penguin Classics In Hard Times the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind school headmaster & model of Utilitarian success Feeding both his pupils & family with facts he bans fancy & wonder from any young minds As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman & &bully of humanity& Mr Bounderby & his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling & robbery & as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe & victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism & machinery This edition of Hard Times is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854 Kate Flint&s introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens&s great critique of Victorian industrial society Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 His most famous books including Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield & The Pickwick Papers have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions If you enjoyed Hard Times you might like Dickens&s Bleak House also available in Penguin Classics &A masterpiece a completely serious work of art&FR Leavis ...

Facts alone are wanted in life Plant nothing else & root out everything else' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations & pay attention only to cold hard reality They live in a smoky troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by & resentments run deep The effects of Gradgrind's teaching on his own children Tom & Louisa are particularly profound & leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart Luckily for them they have a friend in Sissy Jupe the child of a circus clown who retains her warm-hearted compassionate nature despite the pressures around her Also in the Vintage Classics Dickens Series A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Great Expectations Oliver Twist ...

Introduction & Notes by Dinny Thorold University of Westminster Illustrated by F Walker & 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 & polluted environment This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind & the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby However human joy is not excluded thanks to & Mr Sleary&s Horse-Riding& circus a gin-soaked & hilarious troupe of open-hearted & affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery & 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 & FR Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms while readers the world over have found inspiration & enjoyment from what is both Dickens’ shortest completed novel & also one of his important statements on Victorian society ...

A TV adaptation of the Dickens novel set in the heart of northern industrial England which tells of an abandoned circus girl in Victorian England who goes to work for businessman & politician Mr Gradgrind ...

Collector&s Edition Contains Game DLCT-Shirt Art bookand Badge Welcome to the Wild West as you&ve never seen before Follow Warren on his descent into the darkest recesses of the human soul & try to survive in a world full of hard choices & even harder consequences Because in this world death is a constant presence & the black pacts which you make with forces beyond human comprehension will forever haunt all those around you Journey deeper into the world of hard West & meet a colorful cast of playable characters whose fates are intimately intertwined with yours Together you will need to make divisive choices to uncover the ultimate plans of the ancient powers at play as you Unravel a deep narrative storyline featuring multiple endings depending on the choices you make during the game ...

Description below is for brand new sealed products & may not represent the item fully Images are for illustration only Contents & item condition may vary All items are sold in working condition Instruction manuals guides downloadable or online accessible content listed on the product are not guaranteed to be included Collector&s Edition Contains Game DLCT-Shirt Art bookand Badge Welcome to the Wild West as you&ve never seen before Follow Warren on his descent into the darkest recesses of the human soul & try to survive in a world full of hard choices & even harder consequences Because in this world death is a constant presence & the black pacts which you make with forces beyond human comprehension will forever haunt all those around you Journey deeper into the world of hard West & meet a colorful cast of playable characters whose fates are intimately intertwined with yours Together you will need to make divisive choices to uncover the ultimate plans of the ancient powers at play as you Unravel a deep narrative storyline featuring multiple endings depending on the choices you make during the game ...

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey & Bob Dylan unicorn skulls & voracious librarians John Coltrane & Lord Jim Science fiction detective story & post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo Murakami unites East & West tragedy & farce compassion & detachment slang & philosophy ...

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