Hard times / Dickens, Charles

Contains the complete text of the nineteenth-century tale of redemption in a northern English town beset by industrialism, and includes a critical introduction and chronology.

In a northern English town, disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and Dickens's working notes for the novel.

Relates the experiences of a variety of characters struggling in nineteenth-century industrial England.