Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854.
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Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations.
It is by far the shortest of Dickens\' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it.
Hard Times is unusual in several ways.
The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854