Hard Times - Charles Dickens (1854)

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Contemporary fiction. Analyzes working conditions in a Victorian industrial town in the industrial north of England. It is an extraordinary novel that considers how slavery to systems at the expense of imagination and feelings can ruin human lives. This new edition celebrates Charles Dickens' most overtly activist novel, through which the author said he intended to "strike the hardest blow within my power." Hard Times explores today's important social issues and puts prosperity and morality under the microscope.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)Places
Manchester, England, Great Britain, Angleterre, Northern EnglandTimes
19th century, 19e siècleShowing 16 featured editions. See all 1028 editions?
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First published: England: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
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Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolteacher Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most memorable and richly dimensional characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas and, ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and the limitless possibilities of the imagination.