Hard Times
By Charles Dickens
9 May, 2019
Dickens' satirical indictment of 19th century Utilitarianism
“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.” ― Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is his most unusual novel. It
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Dickens' satirical indictment of 19th century Utilitarianism
“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.” ― Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is his most unusual novel. It is substantially shorter than his others and is not set in London, but in a fictitious mil-town named Coketown. The novel follows the life of the young people and workers of Coketown as they seek to survive the utilitarian ideals manifest in the town. Less