| Hard Times Contributor(s): Sir Angels (Editor), Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544685211 ISBN-13: 9781544685212 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.28 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 296 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 50672 Reading Level: 9.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 20.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |