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Hard Times
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bookshelves: classic
Mar 12, 2020
bookshelves: classic
Read 2 times. Last read January 27, 2009 to February 5, 2009.
“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so.�
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
One of Dickens' shortest works deemed as one of his best by some readers and critics.... deemed his worse by me. The almost sledgehammer-like satirising of the ills of industrialisation and utilitarianism, with the trials and tribulations of the Gradgrinds. Also a look at the practices, beliefs and education of the ruling classes and how it impacts on the lesser class residents of factory town Coketown (a fictionalised Manchester). Hard times had by all, does not a story make. 3 out of 12.
2009 read
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
One of Dickens' shortest works deemed as one of his best by some readers and critics.... deemed his worse by me. The almost sledgehammer-like satirising of the ills of industrialisation and utilitarianism, with the trials and tribulations of the Gradgrinds. Also a look at the practices, beliefs and education of the ruling classes and how it impacts on the lesser class residents of factory town Coketown (a fictionalised Manchester). Hard times had by all, does not a story make. 3 out of 12.
2009 read
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
January 27, 2009
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Started Reading
February 5, 2009
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Finished Reading
March 12, 2020
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April 6, 2025
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Jan 11, 2021 01:49AM
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Whoops! Hard words for Hard Times. Always appreciate your honest feedback, Baba! Thank you!
Lula wrote: ":("It's not bad, just not as amazing as his other works :)
Rosh wrote: "Whoops! Hard words for Hard Times. Always appreciate your honest feedback, Baba! Thank you!""Hard words for Hard Times"... love it Rosh :)
