Hard times for these times

Book info: Hard times for these times (Hardcover, 316 pages – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School, 1958) – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School, 1958. Language: Eng.

(Book Jacket Jacketed)By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times. a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism, everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice, and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.