Hard Times

Dickens'swidelyreadsatiricalaccountoftheIndustrialRevolution.DickenscreatestheVictorianindustrialcityofCoketown,innorthernEngland,anditsunforgettablecitizens,suchastheunwaveringutilitarianThomasGradgrindandthefactoryownerJosiahBounderby,andtheresultishisfamouscritiqueofcapitalistphilosophy,theexploitativeforcehebelievedwasdestroyinghumancreativityandjoy.Thiseditionincludesnewnotestothetext.