Publisher's Synopsis

'Hard Times' is Dickens' portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind and Bounderby he examines the ethos of 19th century industrialization which allows human beings to be enslaved to machines.

Book information

ISBN: 9780451530998
Publisher: Penguin Random House Group
Imprint: Signet Classics
Pub date:
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 313
Weight: 165g
Height: 174mm
Width: 107mm
Spine width: 24mm