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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Hard Times!

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Hard Times, published in 1854, is the title of the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, the English novelist. Like most of Dickens’ novels, Hard Times is a searing indictment of a corrosive and morally atrophied so­ciety on the brink of disaster.

Set in Vic­torian England, which was touted as a prosperous epoch, the novel reframes the socio-economic turmoil that undermined the entire fabric of the English society of that time. The reality of what was config­ured as prosperity was acute deprivation and hunger for the common man as a re­sult of the dislocation occasioned by the Industrial Revolution.