Hard Times - Fourth Edition (A Norton Critical Edition)
Dickens, Charles; Kaplan, Fred (Ed.)
Language: English
Published by W· W· Norton & Company, U.S.A., 2017
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NF. Numbering sequence denotes 1st Printing of the 2017 Norton Critical Soft Cover stated 4th Edition thus, edited, with preface, by Fred Kaplan, and criticism, contextual and interpretive essays by various scholars and academics. Book is straight, square, tightly and evenly bound (no creasing at gutter, spine or hinges), and, except for minor bumping to Cover lower front that affects a few corresponding text pages, free of other blemishes and markings. Cover is clean and bright, with sharp corners and joints, straight head, tail, spine, hinges and edges, boldly legible lettering and crisply distinct design, illustration and Author image. (Please see Seller images). ISBN 09780393284386. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING if any questions or for more information, details or photos.
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- Title
- Hard Times - Fourth Edition (A Norton Critical Edition)
- Author
- Dickens, Charles; Kaplan, Fred (Ed.)
- Publisher
- W· W· Norton & Company, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393284387
- ISBN 13
- 9780393284386
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1.5 pounds
- Series
- Book 20 of 52: Norton Critical Editions
“An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” ―John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University
This Norton Critical Edition includes:- Sylvère Monod’s superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan’s expanded annotations.
- Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890.
- Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens’ time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in the nineteenth century.
- Eight new critical essays by Paulette Kidder, David M. Levy, Christopher Barnes, Theodore Dalrymple, Christina Lupton, Efraim Sicher, Nils Clausson, and Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson.
- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
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About the Author
Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. A biographer and literary scholar, he is the author of John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Henry James: The Imagination of Genius: A Biography, and Dickens: A Biography, among others. His Thomas Carlyle: A Biography was nominated for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. His Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Fiction, Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction, and Miracles of Rare Device: The Poet’s Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry are important contributions to the study of Romantic and Victorian British literature and culture. He is currently at work on a study of Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, and slavery and a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
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