Dickens's most scathing portrait of the effects of Victorian industrialism, he sets his story against the manufacturing town of 'Coketown', where the upper class' superiority towards the working class is illustrated through those who 'knew of their existence by hundreds and by thousands...[and] scarcely thought of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops.' The story of a fanatically practical man, who raised his children only according to facts, shows the error in such thinking as his children become morally unfounded and slowly but surely drift into ruin. 223 pages, softcover.
