Hard Times Novel
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 satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens’ novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.
Hard Times Novel Summary
One of Dickens’s reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and it was hoped the novel’s publication in installments would boost circulation – as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication, it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused 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. F. R. Leavis, a great admirer of the book, included it – but not Dickens’ work as a whole – as part of his Great Tradition of English novels.
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Name Of the Novel: Hard Times Book
Author: Charles Dickens
Original title: Hard Times – For These Times
Country: England
Language: English
Genre: Novel
Published: Serialised April 1854 –12 August 1854; book format 1854
Publisher: Bradbury & Evans
Media type: Print
Book Type: Pdf / ePub
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