Charles Dickens

Tiempos difíciles (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tiempos difíciles es la décima novela escrita por Charles Dickens. Se publicó por primera vez en 1854 y transcurre en Inglaterra durante la primera industrialización. Su título original en inglés es Hard Times for This Times. Se publicó inicialmente de forma periódica en la revista Household Words, dirigida por el propio Dickens, entre el 1 de abril y el 12 de agosto de 1854.
La acción no transcurre ni en Londres ni en sus alrededores, algo inusual en Dickens. Transcurre en Coketown, una ciudad ficticia del norte de la Inglaterra victoriana. Se considera que su descripción está basada, al menos parcialmente, en la ciudad de Preston.
Se nos da una perspectiva del momento desde dos puntos de vista muy diferentes: el de la clase proletaria, que cree que el trabajo es su único modelo de vida, ( «además de resultarles necesario para subsistir»), y el de la clase alta, que controla las fábricas y mantiene en condiciones pésimas a sus obreros. También se nos muestra otro tipo de vida: el de la gente del circo, que se apartan completamente de la que llevan los dos grupos anteriormente nombrados. Dickens nos muestra todo esto con un trasfondo irónico, sin hacer una crítica clara de la sociedad de su época hasta las últimas páginas de la obra.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenbooks Editore
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Spanisch
• ISBN-13: 9788832950014
• Artikelnr.: 48260778

Autorenporträt

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction.