TY - BOOK AU - Dickens, Charles TI - Hard times T2 - Penguin popular classics SN - 9780140620443 (pbk.) : U1 - PR4550 .A1 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - London PB - Penguin KW - Industrial revolution - England, Northern - Fiction KW - England, Northern - Social conditions - Fiction N1 - '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 ER -