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Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' vels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other vels, Hard Times has neither a preface r illustrations. Moreover, it is his only vel t to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based upon 19th-century Preston. One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and it was hoped its publication in instalments would boost circulation - as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as F. R. Leavis, George Bernard Shaw, and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focusing on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post-Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10
149475200x
ISBN-13
9781494752002
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189590143

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Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Charles Dickens
Genre
General & Literary Fiction

Dimensions

Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Weight
363g

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14mm
Date of Publication
20/12/2013
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Country of Publication
United States

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