Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, "Household Words, Hard Times" was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet ...

The world of Hard Times For These Times revolves around a small industrial town firmly in the grip of one businessman. Bounderby is owner of the local mill and Gradgrind, his ...

The great classic about the society of the Industrial Revolution. In Coketown, the Industrial Revolution has already transformed into a capitalist nightmare. The affluent Mr ...

Hard Times, the story of siblings Louisa and Tom Gradgrind, who are brought up by their father according to strict - as he believes - rationalist principles, stands, according ...

Hard Times, the story of siblings Louisa and Tom Gradgrind, who are brought up by their father according to strict - as he believes - rationalist principles, stands, according ...