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Hard Times (Unabridged)
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Narrator
- Steve Patriarca
- Publisher
- Bookstream Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 29 September 2020
- Run Time
- 11 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
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- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Narrator
- Steve Patriarca
- Duration
- 11 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9783991156758
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bookstream Audiobooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. 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. 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.
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