Publisher's Synopsis

Hard Times is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Boudnerby he stigmatised the philosopy of Utilitarianism, which allowed human beings to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.

Book information

ISBN: 9781857150735
Publisher: Everyman
Imprint: Everyman
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 293
Weight: 476g
Height: 213mm
Width: 136mm
Spine width: 25mm