# Hard Times

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- Book: [Hard Times](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/hard-times) ([Hard Times.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/hard-times.md))
- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0794-720-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2012-01-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The shortest of Charles Dickens’s novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard...