Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
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Hard Times stands as one of Charles Dickens’s sharpest critiques of Victorian industrial society. The story follows the Gradgrind family and others as they grapple with the dehumanizing effects of utilitarianism. Though Dickens’s shortest novel, just over 100,000 words, Hard Times packs a powerful punch with its harsh satire of industrialization and fact-based education.

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