Overview

Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it.[1] Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.[2] Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.

ISBN-13

9781535434010

ISBN-10

1535434015

Weight

0.79 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.60 x 9.00 In

List Price

$12.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

264 pages

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published On

2016-07-22



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