01808cam a22003733u 4500001000400000003000700004005001700011006000200028007000500030008004100035040001100076041001700087050000700104100003300111245001500144264005100159300004700210336002600257337002600283338003600309500008500345500003100430508007100461520064700532534004501179653002301224653002101247653003101268653003001299653002501329653002201354856004101376999001701417786UtSlPG20260610133036.0mcr n260607r1997||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aDickens, Charles,d1812-187010aHard Times 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c1997  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(novel)  aRelease date is 1997-01-01  aTranscribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price.  a"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.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aEngland -- Fiction  aDomestic fiction  aSocial problems -- Fiction  aUtilitarianism -- Fiction  aEducation -- Fiction  aPolitical fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786  c42905d42905