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Want to read. Kindle $8.99. Rate this book. Hard Times. Charles Dickens, Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny. 3.54. 68,821 ratings4,319 reviews. "My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel.
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- The best Charles Dickens novel for crime fiction fans. Bleak House. Part tightly plotted murder mystery, part biting condemnation of the corruption at the heart of English society, Bleak House follows the inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
- The best Charles Dickens book for younger readers. Oliver Twist. When orphaned Oliver Twist runs away from the workhouse he was born in and arrives by foot in London, he’s faced with a world of crime, unusual friends and unexpected kindness.
- Charles Dickens' most romantic book. Great Expectations. Also opening with a poor orphaned boy, Great Expectations tells the tale of how young Pip falls in love with a beautiful upper-class girl named Estella.
- Charles Dickens' books that explore politics. Hard Times. Set in Coketown, an imaginary town inspired by Preston, Hard Times is a novel of social and moral themes which George Bernard Shaw called a ‘passionate revolt against the whole industrial order of the modern world.’
Jan 1, 2013 · Hard Times. by Charles Dickens. Dickens’s shortest novel is set in the age of the Industrial Revolution, when industrialists made their fortune while the laborers who worked for them slaved in dangerous and unhealthy conditions.
Book review: “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens. Patrick T. Reardon May 11th, 2012. I suspect that Charles Dickens was in a pretty foul mood when he wrote “Hard Times” in 1854. He draws stark differences between the “good” people and the “bad” people in this story, and assigns bleak fates to nearly all of them.
Apr 29, 2003 · Want to read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Hard Times. Charles Dickens, Kate Flint (Introduction) 3.81. 16 ratings1 review. 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.’.
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Full Book Analysis. Previous Next. As a whole, Hard Times allows Dickens to critique the cold, heartless nature of industrialism in 19th-century London and highlight the detrimental effects that such an environment can have on future generations. This kind of social commentary is a defining characteristic of Dickens’s writings, but Hard Times ...
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Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those ...
