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Fiction · 1854

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Reading time
about 7.5 h
Length
105,700 words · 254 pages in print
Structure
37 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Hard Times, first published in 1854, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, machine-cleaned and carefully typeset, free to read online and available in print. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Book the First — Sowing
  2. Chapter I — The One Thing Needful
  3. Chapter II — Murdering the Innocents
  4. Chapter III — A Loophole
  5. Chapter IV — Mr. Bounderby
  6. Chapter V — The Keynote
  7. Chapter VI — Sleary’s Horsemanship
  8. Chapter VII — Mrs. Sparsit
  9. Chapter VIII — Never Wonder
  10. Chapter IX — Sissy’s Progress
  11. Chapter X — Stephen Blackpool
  12. Chapter XI — No Way Out
  13. Chapter XII — The Old Woman
  14. Chapter XIII — Rachael
  15. Chapter XIV — The Great Manufacturer
  16. Chapter XV — Father and Daughter
  17. Chapter XVI — Husband and Wife
  18. Book the Second — Reaping
  19. Chapter I — Effects in the Bank
  20. Chapter II — Mr. James Harthouse
  21. Chapter III — The Whelp
  22. Chapter IV — Men and Brothers
  23. Chapter V — Men and Masters
  24. Chapter VI — Fading Away
  25. Chapter VII — Gunpowder
  26. Chapter VIII — Explosion
  27. Chapter IX — Hearing the Last of It
  28. Chapter X — Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase
  29. Chapter XI — Lower and Lower
  30. Chapter XII — Down
  31. Book the Third — Garnering
  32. Chapter I — Another Thing Needful
  33. Chapter II — Very Ridiculous
  34. Chapter III — Very Decided
  35. Chapter IV — Lost
  36. Chapter V — Found
  37. Chapter VI — The Starlight
  38. Chapter VII — Whelp-Hunting
  39. Chapter VIII — Philosophical
  40. Chapter IX — Final

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Charles Dickens

1812–1870 · Victorian

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