Hard Times

Author: Charles Dickens

"Hard Times" is one of the most important novels by the giant of British literature, Charles Dickens, and his tenth novel. It depicts English society with all its social and economic pressures at that time. Through it, Dickens succeeded in building a masterful serial narrative that many critics consider to be a highly sophisticated artistic structure. This novel differs from Dickens' other novels in that it is not set in London or its suburbs, but in a fictional industrial city in northern England. The novel revolves around a conflict between the love of money and materialism versus the heart and human emotions. It is the eternal conflict in human history. "Hard Times" is a novel of the times after the Industrial Revolution, and until the end of time.