Hard times /

Dickens, Charles

Hard times / Charles Dickens. - London Penguin 1994 - vi, 268 p. ; 19 cm. - Penguin popular classics .

'Hard Times' is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Bounderby he examines the ethos of 19th century industrialization which allows human beings to be enslaved to machines.

9780140620443 (pbk.) : 0140620443 9780140620443


Industrial revolution - England, Northern - Fiction
England, Northern - Social conditions - Fiction

PR4550 .A1 1994