Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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"Hard Times" by Charles Dickens is a novel first published in 1854. Set in the fictional industrial town of Coketown, it satirizes the harsh social and economic conditions of Victorian England. The story follows the rigid utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind, his children Louisa and Tom, the boastful factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the struggling mill worker Stephen Blackpool. Through their intersecting lives, Dickens examines the grinding divide between wealthy capitalists and exploited workers
in post-Industrial Revolution society, questioning whether facts alone can sustain human happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 |
|---|---|
| Title | Hard Times |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(novel) |
| Credits | Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Social problems -- Fiction |
| Subject | Utilitarianism -- Fiction |
| Subject | Education -- Fiction |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 786 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 1997 |
| Last Update | Dec 18, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 8607 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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