THE ATHENAEUMHard TimesCharles Dickens
Society
Hard Times
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textIn the smoky mill town of Coketown, Mr Gradgrind raises his children on facts and nothing but facts, and learns too late what that has cost them. It is the shortest of Dickens’s novels and his angriest about industrial England. The circus people are the only ones with any sense.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- On the Society shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #786. In the public domain in the United States.