Hard Times Binding:Paperback 1 cm W | 1

1 cm W | 1 cm T | 136

just defiant and strong willed

Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial

Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth

Hard Times Binding:Paperback 1 cm W | 1An alternate cover edition can be found here. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse Riding' circus, a