Novels (Cricket on the Hearth / Great Expectations / Hard Times)

By Charles Dickens

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Description: GREAT EXPECTATIONS explores, through Pip's relationship with MISS Havisham, her ward Estella and the convict Magwitch, the nature of hypocrisy, fear, 'gentility' and ambition. HARD TIMES depicts the political and social world of Coketown, a typical Victorian industrial town peopled by such vivid characters as Gradgrind, Sissy Jupe, Bounderby and Stephen Blackpool. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH is Dickens's third Christmas book, taking for its theme a husband's unjust suspicions abeåt the fidelity of his much younger wife.