Reseña: Hard Times was published in 1854 and is set in
Northern England in Coketown, a polluted and suffering
place with smoke-filled factories and soulless workers
who have been downtrodden by the cruel and heartless
Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby. Considered
Dickens" harshest indictment of mid-19th-century
industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, Hard
Times offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life,
filled with the richness of detail, brilliant
characterization, and passionate social concern that
typify the novelist"s finest creations.
