"Hard Times" is Dickens's shortest novel, a sharp attack on the soulless utilitarianism and industrial conditions of Victorian England. Set in the fictional Coketown, it contrasts cold statistical "fact" with the imagination and compassion he believed society was crushing.
Sources for Charles Dickens — Hard Times
Charles Dickens — Hard Times in Charles Dickens
Held in the Charles Dickens chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Charles Dickens — The Pickwick Papers (1837)
- Charles Dickens — Oliver Twist (1838)
- Charles Dickens — David Copperfield (1850)
- Charles Dickens — Bleak House (1853)
- Charles Dickens — Little Dorrit (1857)
- Charles Dickens — A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Charles Dickens — Great Expectations (1861)
- Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)