As far as books go, this one definitely didn’t impress me. My only other encounter with Dickens was Great Expectations, which I remember liking well enough. However, while this story has literary merit through analysis and what it represents in the time period, as an actually story…it failed on almo...
I was assigned Hard Times in high school, and actually remembered it as one of the few works by Dickens I had enjoyed. Rereading it, I did still enjoy it on the whole, but I still found in it so many of the qualities that put me off in Dickens--although often they're closely associated with qualitie...
Not my favorite Dickens book Ive read, but worth reading I think. This one is more sermon like than some of his other works and it does get difficult sifting through that to get to the dialogue and story of the characters, but the tale itself is interesting. The writing felt more dense than other Di...
The premise for this story is really cool! The story opens with a collection of businessmen deciding that they will only abide by Facts, not by sentiment or emotion. Meaning that marriage is decided by one's own objectivity, no complaining, and no decorations (an interesting argument is made against...
I am a big fan of Dickens, but this one was a disappointment for me. Like many of his novels, he is making a commentary on society. In this case, he is criticizing the trend of memorizing facts in education and society's movement toward industrialization. Two of the main characters, siblings Loui...
Funny, short, and so narrowly focused that you can't help but see what Dickens was aiming at with this deviancy of a novel. It's not set in London, it's far shorter than the other books, and at times you can almost feel Dickens' anger at the Bentham/Mill camp surging from the page. It certainly ma...
Hard Times - hard going. Not one of my favorite Dickens' novels but I did make it through to the end.There were a few wonderful descriptive passages but I found the plot thin and the characters two dimensional: I never felt much for any of them.More one to have "ticked off" than to go back to.
A Dickens ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--Hard TimesAppendix I Dickens's Working NotesAppendix II Running Titles Added in 1867-8Notes
A Dickens ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--Hard TimesAppendix I Dickens's Working NotesAppendix II Running Titles Added in 1867-8Notes
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