Hard TimesCharles Dickens

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Hard Times by Charles Dickens– charles dickens

Unusually for Dickens, ‘Hard Times’ is set, not in London, but in

the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of

Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and

polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict

utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner

Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to

‘Mr Sleary’s Horse-Riding’ circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious

troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an

antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary

citizens of Coketown.

Macaulay attacked ‘Hard Times’ for its sullen socialism , but

20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R.

Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers

the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what

is both Dickens’ shortest completed novel and also one of his

important statements on Victorian society.

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