Hard Times by Charles Dickens By 1854, when Hard Times was published Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it to be. Hard Times, a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism,everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire, in its sweeping indignation at social injustice,and in the persistant humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.
