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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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1854
Pages
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10 h 54 min · 22 parts

  1. Book 1, Chapters 1-3

    23:49

  2. Book 1, Chapters 4-5

    31:28

  3. Book 1, Chapter 6

    25:28

  4. Book 1, Chapters 7-8

    26:24

  5. Book 1, Chapters 9-10

    35:07

  6. Book 1, Chapters 11-12

    24:59

  7. Book 1, Chapters 13-14

    33:46

  8. Book 1, Chapters 15-16

    35:46

  9. Book 2, Chapter 1

    31:42

  10. Book 2, Chapters 2-3

    27:11

  11. Book 2, Chapters 4-5

    41:06

  12. Book 2, Chapter 6

    31:30

  13. Book 2, Chapter 7

    29:23

  14. Book 2, Chapter 8

    26:56

  15. Book 2, Chapters 9-10

    30:52

  16. Book 2, Chapters 11-12

    31:00

  17. Book 3, Chapters 1-2

    35:28

  18. Book 3, Chapters 3-4

    39:40

  19. Book 3, Chapter 5

    21:30

  20. Book 3, Chapter 6

    21:37

  21. Book 3, Chapter 7

    24:17

  22. Book 3, Chapters 8-9

    25:46

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Hard Times is Charles Dickens's short, fierce novel of industrial England, published in 1854. Set in the grim northern mill town of Coketown, it attacks a world governed by cold calculation and hard fact, embodied in the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, who raises his own children on statistics and forbids them anything so useless as wonder or feeling. As his daughter Louisa is married off without love and the honest weaver Stephen Blackpool is crushed between mill owners and union men, Dickens shows the human cost of treating people as figures in a ledger. It is his angriest book about the failures of the age, written with all his usual force and pity.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

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First published
1854
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
265
Language
English
Formats
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