内容简介
Mr Gradgrind wants "Facts'! And along with rich merchant Josiah Bounderby, he intends to turn Coketown into a world of calcula-tion and mechanization without any room for feelings. But people are not cogs - and society, it seems, is no machine ...
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作者简介:
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7th, 1812. At the age of eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in a London blacking warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance re..
目录
BOOK THE FIRST.SOWING
CHAPTER
Ⅰ. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL
Ⅱ. MURDERING THE INNOCENTS
Ⅲ. A LOOPHOLE
Ⅳ. ME. BOUNDERBY
Ⅴ. THE KEY-NOTE
Ⅵ. SLEARY'S HORSEMANSHIP
Ⅶ. MRS. SPARSIT
Ⅷ. NEVER WONDER
Ⅸ. SissY's PROGRESS
Ⅹ. STEPHEN BLACKPOOL
Ⅺ. No WAY OUT
Ⅻ. THE OLD WOMAN
ⅫⅠ. RACHAEL
ⅩⅣ. THE GREAT MANUFACTURER
ⅩⅤ. FATHER AND DAUGHTER
ⅩⅥ. HUSBAND AND WIFE
BOOK THE SECOND.REAPING
Ⅰ. EFFECTS IN THE BANK
Ⅱ. MR. JAMES HARTHOUSE
Ⅲ. THE WHELP
Ⅳ. MEN AND BROTHERS
Ⅴ. MEN AND MASTERS
Ⅵ. FADING AWAY
Ⅶ. GUNPOWDER
Ⅷ. EXPLOSION
Ⅸ. HEARING THE LAST OF IT
Ⅹ. MRS, SPARSIT'S STAIRCASE
Ⅺ. LOWER AND LOWER
Ⅻ. DOWN
BOOK THE THIRD.GARNERING
CHAPTER
Ⅰ. ANOTHER THING NEEDFUL
Ⅱ. VERY RIDICULOUS
Ⅲ. VERY DECIDKD
Ⅳ. LOST
Ⅴ. FOUND
Ⅵ. THE STARLIGHT
Ⅶ. WHELP-HUNTING
Ⅷ. PHILOSOPHICAL
Ⅸ.