Hard Times Binding:Paperback especially because the spirit in

especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic

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Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively

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Hard Times Binding:Paperback especially because the spirit inAn alternate cover edition can be found here. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse Riding' circus, a