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Bookmark or Share- Hard Times: Full Book Analysis - SparkNotesAs a whole, Hard Times allows Dickens to critique the cold, heartless nature of industrialism in 19th-century London and highlight the detrimental effects that such an environment can have on future generations.
- Hard Times | Victorian England, Social Criticism, Satire | BritannicaHard Times, novel by Charles Dickens, published in serial form (as Hard Times: For These Times) in the periodical Household Words from April to August 1854 and in book form later the same year. The novel is a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England.
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens Plot Summary | LitChartsGet all the key plot points of Charles Dickens's Hard Times on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
- Hard Times (novel) - WikipediaHard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
- Hard Times: Full Book Summary - SparkNotesJames Harthouse, a wealthy young sophisticate from London, arrives in Coketown to begin a political career as a disciple of Gradgrind, who is now a Member of Parliament. He immediately takes an interest in Louisa and decides to try to seduce her.
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