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020 _a9780140620443 (pbk.) :
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082 _aPR4550 .A1 1994
100 _aDickens, Charles
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245 _aHard times /
_cCharles Dickens.
260 _aLondon
_bPenguin
_c1994
300 _avi, 268 p. ; 19 cm.
490 _aPenguin popular classics
505 _a'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.
650 _aIndustrial revolution - England, Northern - Fiction
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650 _aEngland, Northern - Social conditions - Fiction
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