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Hard Times (Broadview Literary Texts) by Charles Dickens, Graham Law (Editor) Paperback, 460 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 1-55111-075-X / 155111075X ISBN-13: 978-1-55111-075-2 / 9781551110752 Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom wit |