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First published in 1854,"Hard Times", the shortest of Charles Dickens’s full-length novels but one of his best, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out.
The plot centres around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city’s utilitarian ideals and some of whom manage to rise above it. The novel was a scathing attack on then-current ideas of utilitarianism, which Dickens viewed as a selfish and at times oppressive philosophy. Perhaps the novel’s best features are its clever, ironic narration and the larger-than-life characters that push the plot forward, such as the upper-class banker and hypocritical braggart, Josiah Bounderby, and the fact-driven schoolmaster, Thomas Gradgrind.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics, Historical Fiction
Length11 hrs 24 mins
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Publish dateSep 8, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING
2Chapter 1. The One Thing Needful
3Chapter 2. Murdering The Innocents
4Chapter 3. A Loophole
5Chapter 4. Mr. Bounderby
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6Chapter 5. The Keynote
7Chapter 6. Sleary’s Horsemanship
8Chapter 7. Mrs. Sparsit
9Chapter 8. Never Wonder
10Chapter 9. Sissy’s Progress
11Chapter 10. Stephen Blackpool
12Chapter 11. No Way Out
13Chapter 12. The Old Woman
14Chapter 13. Rachael
15Chapter 14. The Great Manufacturer
16Chapter 15. Father And Daughter
17Chapter 16. Husband And Wife
18BOOK THE SECOND. REAPING
19Chapter 1. Effects In The Bank
20Chapter 2. Mr. James Harthouse
21Chapter 3. The Whelp
22Chapter 4. Men And Brothers
23Chapter 5. Men And Masters
24Chapter 6. Fading Away
25Chapter 7. Gunpowder
26Chapter 8. Explosion
27Chapter 9. Hearing The Last Of It
28Chapter 10. Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase
29Chapter 11. Lower And Lower
30Chapter 12. Down
31BOOK THE THIRD. GARNERING
32Chapter 1. Another Thing Needful
33Chapter 2. Very Ridiculous
34Chapter 3. Very Decided
35Chapter 4. Lost
36Chapter 5. Found
37Chapter 6. The Starlight
38Chapter 7. Whelp-Hunting
39Chapter 8. Philosophical
40Chapter 9. Final
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