Hard times
By: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Arcturus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781782124191
Subjects: Industrial revolution; Fiction; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Contemporary fiction. Looks at working conditions in a Victorian factory town in the industrial north of England. It's an extraordinary novel that considers how enslavement to systems at the expense of imagination and feeling can wreck human lives. This new edition celebrates Charles Dickens' most openly campaigning novel, through which the author said he aimed to ''strike the heaviest blow in my power''. Hard Times explores the important social questions of the day and places prosperity and morality under the microscope.
Notes: First published: England : Bradbury & Evans, 1854.