艰难时世_hard_times

作者：hard_times

播音：佚名

音频：22

更新：22.mp3

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embedthisHardTimes,theshortestofDickens’sfull-lengthnovels,issetinthefictitiousVictorian-EnglandcityofCoketown,wherefactsaretheruleandallfancyistobestampedout.Theplotcentersaroundthemenandwomenofthetown,someofwhomarebeatendownbythecity’sutilitarianidealsandsomeofwhommanagetoriseaboveit.Thenovelwaswrittenin1854andwasascathingattackonthen-currentideasofutilitarianism,whichDickensviewedasaselfishandattimesoppressivephilosophy.Perhapsthenovel’sbestfeaturesareitsclever,ironicnarrationandthelarger-than-lifecharactersthatpushtheplotforward,suchastheupper-classbankerandhypocriticalbraggart,JosiahBounderby,andthefact-drivenschoolmaster,ThomasGradgrind