Hard Times

Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a concentrated industrial novel of education, class, labor, and emotional damage in the fact-driven world of Coketown.

At a glance Dickens at his most concentrated on industry, education, and the cost of reducing life… Set in the grim manufacturing city of Coketown, the book examines what happens when… Thomas Gradgrind's devotion to facts, Josiah Bounderby's self-serving mythology of… Unlike Dickens's broader panoramic books, Hard Times is tightly built and unusually…

Hard Times is Charles Dickens's shortest major novel, but it is among his sharpest social critiques. Set in the grim manufacturing city of Coketown, the book examines what happens when education, work, and family life…

About this book Dickens's concentrated industrial novel follows the emotional and social consequences of education by facts alone in Coketown.