Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	November 30, 2015
ISBN13	9781519621825
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	264
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 14 mm · 358 g
Language	English

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