Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.

Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. Serialised April 1854 – 12 August 1854 book format 1854 Title page of the serial in Household Words, April 1854 For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,431 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

Hard Times by Charles Dickens