Hard Times: Charles Dickens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781718698567)

Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual 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.

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1718698569
ISBN-13: 9781718698567
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2018
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.3
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 50672 / Hard Times