{"product_id":"hard-times-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393284386","title":"Hard Times: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"This Norton Critical Edition includes: \u003cbr\u003e - Sylv?re Monod's superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan's expanded annotations.\u003cbr\u003e - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890.\u003cbr\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDickens, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCharles Dickens\u003c\/strong\u003e (1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. His many works include the classics \u003cem\u003eThe Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/em\u003e and many more.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaplan, Fred:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFred Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eJohn Quincy Adams: American Visionary\u003c\/em\u003e, T\u003cem\u003ehe Singular Mark Twain: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLincoln: The Biography of a Writer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHenry James: The Imagination of Genius: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDickens: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. His \u003cem\u003eThomas Carlyle: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e was nominated for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. His \u003cem\u003eSacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMiracles of Rare Device: The Poet's Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e 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.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523563589906,"sku":"9780393284386","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_464ddfb8-3e04-4416-921b-a012685f16fd.jpg?v=1731152636","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hard-times-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393284386","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}