"Тяжелые Времена" Чарльза Диккенса - это исследование английского общества и сатира на социальные и экономические условия Викторианской эпохи. В сюжете "Тяжёлых Времен" взят вымышленный промышленно развитый город Кокт-Таун. Автор описывал настоящую картину такого города. Красный кирпич, из которого сложены здания, был задымлен и покрыт копотью, отчего приобрел неестественный красный и чёрный цвет.
Электронная Книга «Charles Dickens: Hard Times (English Edition)» написана автором Charles Dickens в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9783746795362
Описание книги от Charles Dickens
"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness."
"Hard Times" by Charles Dickens surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the Victorian era. The story of «Hard Times» is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town.
