Physical description

Hard Cover edition, Hard Times for These Times
Author: Charles Dickens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London.
Date: 1955 first published in book form 1854 (See note section this document for more information on Edition).
Blue leather hardcover, Spine has Author and Title in gold lettering. The spine has a Library label and no Volume information.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT. 823. DIC
Front fly cover has Title and Publisher Details for year 1955.

Summary

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era, famous for vivid characters, social criticism, and stories that were first published in serial form. He began as a journalist, rose to enormous popularity during his lifetime, and wrote major works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
“Hard Times For These Times” is a short but fiercely satirical novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. It is set in the grim industrial town of Coketown and attacks the worship of utilitarianism, the dehumanising effects of factory labour, and the wider social divide between the wealthy owners and the impoverished workers of the Victorian industrial era in Britain.