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Title: Hard Times (Annotated)
Author : Charles Dickens
Release Date : January 19, 2015
Genre: Classics,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1288 KB

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Hard Times – For These Times (also known as Hard Times) is the tenth work by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.

Hard Times is strange in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.

This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents. This book has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, background, connection to utilitarianism, adaptations, plot, characters, themes, biographical and bibliographical information.