Hard Times AUTH-2101814 ISBN10: 0830831150

ISBN10: 0830831150

Richard lives in Salt Lake City

restrictive legislation

but without concertina barbed wire

to her rash decision to join the Free French forces at the outbreak of World War II

Hard Times AUTH-2101814 ISBN10: 0830831150The shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Times was born of its author's indignation at the soul crushing conditions of the industrial age, and yet it vibrantly transcends the stock situations and polemical weaknesses typical of social protest fiction of the time. The indelible characters Mr.