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Arguably Dickens’ greatest triumph, 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 and a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
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"Clipper Classics First published in 1854, Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist as well as a novelist. His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years."
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