Hard Times

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Yet even as the development of the story reflects Dickens's growing pessimism about human nature and society, Hard Times marks his return to the theme which had made his early works so popular: the amusements of the people.

  • Hard Times: (New Edition) - Charles Dickens
    By Charles Dickens

    The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. The novel was published as a serial in Dickens's weekly publication, Household Words.

  • Hard Times: By Charles Dickens - Illustrated
    By Charles Charles Dickens

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  • Hard Times: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton
    Hard Times: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton
    By Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton

    This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter from “Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens” by G. K. Chesterton.

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Hard Times is Charles Dickens 1854 novel. The story satirizes the social economic times and the prevalence of utilitarianism of the nineteenth century. The book follows Galatians 6:7 in its organization with Sowing, Reaping, and Garnering.

  • Hard Times: For These Times
    Hard Times: For These Times
    By Heidi Stillman

    Script of the play based on Charles Dickens novel.

  • Hard Times: Young and Homeless
    By Alan Booth, Nigel Pollitt, Helen Kay

    Hard Times: Young and Homeless

  • Hard Times
    By Tavner Gill Dickens Charles Donnelly Karen

    This book retells the story of an industrial city in Northern England and the bleak existence of its inhabitants in the mid-1800s.

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By C. A. & Thomas, B. R.

    X Stephen Blackpool I entertain a weak idea that the English people are as hardworked as any people upon whom the sun shines . I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy , as a reason why I would give them a little more play .

  • Hard Times: Impoverishment and Protest in the Perestroika Years : the Soviet Union 1985-1991
    Hard Times: Impoverishment and Protest in the Perestroika Years : the Soviet Union 1985-1991
    By William Moskoff

    Moscow Russian Television Network in Russian ( June 29 , 1991 ) . From FBIS - SOV - 91-127 ( July 2 , 1991 ) , 79 . 167. Radikal , no . 22 ( June 13 , 1991 ) , 6. One indication of the serious ethnic tensions within the various ...

  • Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath
    Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath
    By Anthony Francis Heath, Tom Clark

    Originally published: 2014, as Hard times: the divisive toll of the economic slump.

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Hard Times--Dickens's shortest novel and one of his triumphs--tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    A scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" is a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of...

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    This edition of Hard Times is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flint’s introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens’s great critique of Victorian industrial society.

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, Hard Times offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and ...

  • Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
    Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
    By Studs Terkel

    Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Hard Times

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, "Household Words, Hard Times" was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the...

  • Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath
    Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath
    By Tom Clark, Anthony Heath

    We show a simplified version of Li, 'Hard times, worklessness and unemployment', p. 23, Figure 5. We are grateful to Yaojun Li for supplying his latest data, aggregated across the sexes. Measured in the same way, the 'penalty' for ...

  • Hard Times
    Hard Times
    By Charles Dickens

    Stephen looked older, but he had had a hard life. It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his ...