Hard Times UPDATE:Default Title The classic novel that illustrates

The classic novel that illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies

among others-and demonstrates how what is valuable in each opposing view can be accommodated within his own theory

A bracing amalgam of skepticism and sympathy

Date: 3/9/1999

And because they flourished for three hundred million years

Hard Times UPDATE:Default Title The classic novel that illustratesAuthor Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles; Jacobs, Jane Publisher: Modern Library Date: 7 10 2001 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist