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100 1 _aDickens, Charles,
_d1812-1870
245 1 0 _aHard Times
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1997
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times_(novel)
500 _aRelease date is 1997-01-01
508 _aTranscribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price.
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEngland -- Fiction
653 _aDomestic fiction
653 _aSocial problems -- Fiction
653 _aUtilitarianism -- Fiction
653 _aEducation -- Fiction
653 _aPolitical fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/786
999 _c42905
_d42905