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Hard Times
Charles Dickens · Literary Fiction · 272 pages
38 Pulse Score
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historical fictioncoming of age
historical fiction
#328 All Time
About this book
Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.
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