Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 creator text utu 1997 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens is a novel first published in 1854. Set in the fictional industrial town of Coketown, it satirizes the harsh social and economic conditions of Victorian England. The story follows the rigid utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind, his children Louisa and Tom, the boastful factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the struggling mill worker Stephen Blackpool. Through their intersecting lives, Dickens examines the grinding divide between wealthy capitalists and exploited workers in post-Industrial Revolution society, questioning whether facts alone can sustain human happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(novel) Release date is 1997-01-01 Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price. Original publication data not identified England -- Fiction Domestic fiction Social problems -- Fiction Utilitarianism -- Fiction Education -- Fiction Political fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133036.0 786