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Year first published: 1854<\/p>\n

First Edition: No<\/p>\n

Condition: Very Good<\/p>\n

Binding: Paperback<\/p>\n

Pages: 329<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard Times<\/em> is Dickens’ powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby he stigmatised the prevalent philosophy if Utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1493","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction-d","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"\nCharles Dickens, Hard Times - Jayne's Secondhand Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jaynesbooks.com\/?product=charles-dickens-hard-times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charles Dickens, Hard Times - Jayne's Secondhand Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hard Times is Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840's. 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