York Notes on Hard Times by Charles Dickens

by Dominic Hyland, Charles Dickens

Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism and a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution.

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1983

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

While generally good, this does make the stupid mistake of thinking that the Brutus who executed his sons for treason was the Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Just 5 centuries out!