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Hard Times - Charles Dickens

Hard Times is one of the most well-known works by Charlest Dickens. This novel is an extremely representative work of the Victorian period in English literature. Set in Coketown during the 19th-century and its Industrial Revolution, the novel treats the mechanization of the characters.
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Hard Times, first published in 1854, is short--compared to the other major novels of Charles Dickens. It is divided into three parts: Sowing, Reaping, and Garnering.

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