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Hard Times

Name: Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780451530998

Charles Dickens

313 pages

Signet Classics

Jul 2008

Literature & Fiction WSBN

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'Hard Times' is Dickens' portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind and Bounderby he examines the ethos of 19th century industrialization which allows human beings to be enslaved to machines.

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