In a grim industrial town, a schoolmaster's fact-worship and a mill owner's greed crush the human spirit. Dickens's fierce short novel against utilitarianism.
Books mentioned in Hard Times (1)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “She drew herself up, and stood behind a tree, like Robinson Crusoe in his ambuscade against the savages; so near to them that at a spring, and that no great one, she could have touched them both.”
Books that mention Hard Times (4)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: “Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White.”
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: “I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens.”