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Hard Times
Charles Dickens
其他書名
Charles Dickens
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018-05-04
主題Fiction / ClassicsFiction / Thrillers / TechnologicalFiction / Satire
ISBN17186985699781718698567
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sULjtgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Hard Times by Charles Dickens. 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 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.