Hard Times is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Boudnerby he stigmatised the philosopy of Utilitarianism, which allowed human beings to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
| ISBN: | 9781857150735 |
| Publication date: | 4th June 1992 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 293 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |