Hard Times

author
Charles Dickens

plot synopsis in 50 words or fewer
A novel dealing heavily with nineteenth-century England’s overzealous adoption of industrialization at the expense of emotion and imagination. What happens to people when rationalism, facts, and economics are the driving force behind action?

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some other things this author has written
Sketches by Boz (1836)
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club aka The Pickwick Papers (1837)
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838)
The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (1841)
Master Humphrey's Clock (1841)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844) aka A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
Dombey and Son (1848)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
Bleak House (1853)
Hard Times: For These Times (1854)
Little Dorrit (1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
The Uncommercial Traveller (1860)
Great Expectations (1861)
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890) (with Wilkie Collins)