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Hard Times
Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author)

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 ISBN: 149475200X     ISBN-13: 9781494752002
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $14.48  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 4-9
Grade Level: PreK-4
Lexile Measure: 750(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.80 lbs) 268 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 50672
Reading Level: 9.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 20.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based upon 19th-century Preston. One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and it was hoped its publication in instalments would boost circulation - as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as F. R. Leavis, George Bernard Shaw, and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focusing 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.
 
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