Hard Times

ISBN 978-1-86478-116-8

The Neap smartstudy® English text guide to Hard Times is a valuable aid to Charles Dickens’s confronting novel. His exploration of social inequality and the impact of industrialisation in nineteenth-century England exposes the poverty and oppression of the working class, while the fate of the Gradgrind family demonstrates the importance of human connection and imagination in a rapidly changing world.

Key features:

• notes about the author/director/poet/playwright
• an overview of the historical and cultural context
• chapter/scene/story summaries
• character profiles
• analysis of themes and genres
• critical perspectives of the text
• key quotations
• focus questions in each section
• marginal notes explaining key passages, ideas, terms and characters
• a guide to planning and writing an essay
• sample essays with annotations
• further exam-style essay questions
• a bibliography and further reading section

$16.95

(GST Inc.)