Title: Hard Times (299 p)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Peacock Books
Year Published: 2008 (first published: 1854)
The novel is set in the imaginary industrial town of Caketown. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters - the hard-headed fact-worshiper Professor Gradgrind, the heartless factory owner Bounderby, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe and eternally noble Stephen Blackpool -Hard Times carries uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens' major novels. It is a bitter expose of capitalist exploitation during the Industrial Revolution - and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places.
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