Hard Times (novel)
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Hard Times: For These Times is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises its social and economic conditions.
Title page of the serial in Household Words, April 1854
Gradgrind apprehends Louisa and Tom, his two eldest children, caught peeping at the circus.
George Bernard Shaw was critical of the book's message.
Dickens Gurney head
Little Dorrit
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Little Dorrit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in t
Hard Times (novel)
…August 1854; book format 1854 Publisher Bradbury & Evans Publication place England Media type Print Preceded by A Child's History of England Followed by Little Dorrit Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book…
Cover of serial Volume 4, March 1856
Mr Flintwinch has a mild attack of irritability
Engraving of "Little Dorrit", 1856
Interior of Marseilles Prison by William Powell Frith, 1859, depicts a scene from the first chapter