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'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, 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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Title: Hard Times
Language: English
Authors: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Released: 2017
Format: Paperback
ISBN10: 1788280490
ISBN13: 9781788280495
Series: Real Reads
Tags: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Social Critique, Victorian Era, Industrialization
Rating: 3.45 out of 5
Description: '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, 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.