HARD TIMES – CHARLES DICKENS

VINTAGE SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK

Vintage Signet Classics edition of Charles Dickens' celebrated Victorian literary novel Hard Times, published by The New American Library.

Features distinctive orange and yellow illustrated cover artwork, original 60c cover price and an afterword by Charles Shapiro.

A collectible vintage paperback edition of one of Dickens' most powerful works, exploring industrial Britain, social inequality, education and the lives of the Victorian working class.

BOOK DETAILS

Title: Hard Times

Subtitle: For These Times

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: The New American Library

Imprint: Signet Classics

Series Code: CP259

Printing: Fifth Printing

Original Novel Published: 1854

Afterword: Charles Shapiro

Afterword Copyright: 1961

Format: Softcover / Paperback

Language: English

Printed In: United States of America

Cover Price: 60c

Genre: Classic Literature / Victorian Fiction

Themes: Industrial Revolution, Social Criticism, Education, Class Inequality

COLLECTIBLE FEATURES

- Genuine vintage Signet Classics paperback

- Fifth Printing confirmed on copyright page

- Distinctive illustrated vintage cover artwork

- Original CP259 publisher code

- Original 60c printed cover price

- Charles Shapiro scholarly afterword

- New American Library publication

- Classic mid-century paperback design

Hard Times follows Thomas Gradgrind, Josiah Bounderby and the inhabitants of industrial Coketown in Dickens' powerful examination of Victorian society and utilitarian philosophy.

An appealing addition to collections of Charles Dickens, vintage literature, Signet Classics and classic paperback cover art.

Actual book photographed.

Carefully packed for postage.