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"item_title" : "Hard Time",
"item_author" : [" Jv Editors", "Charles Dickens "],
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Overview
Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. 1] Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. 2] Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.
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- ISBN-13: 9781725096042
- ISBN-10: 1725096048
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: August 2018
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.76 pounds
- Page Count: 254
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