Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

266 pages first pub 1854 (view editions)

fiction classics literary reflective slow-paced
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His setting was a mythical place called Coketown, partly inspired by a visit to the Northern industrial town of Preston where he had observed a strike. Dickens was motivated by social concerns: he feared that industrialisation and 'progress' threa...

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