Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles ...

Charles Dickens sat in his study circa 1860. Epics/Getty Images Tell us more about the connections you see to current politics in Hard Times. "My bugbear for a long time has been people like ...

Hard Times (Sunday), with its lean plot and manageable cast of characters, fits like a glove into two allotted hours. This is Dickens’s fiery assault on a worldview which knows the price of ...

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Here are the twelve most read Charles Dickens novels ... Set in the grim industrial town of Coketown, Hard Times is one of Dickens's most scathing social critiques. The novel follows Thomas ...

John Yorke unpacks the themes behind each of the three Dickensian dramas, beginning with Hard Times. Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times is set in a northern factory town at the height of the ...

The second of eight children, Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in February 1812 ... Bleak House and Hard Times. He also kept Catherine busy with their 10 children. In June 1865, Dickens ...