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Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
Hard Times Come Again No More", or "Hard Times", an 1854 song by Stephen Foster "Hard Times" (James Taylor song) , 1981 "Hard Times" (Lacy J. Dalton song) , 1980
Oh! Hard times come again no more. Chorus: 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, Hard Times, hard times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered around my cabin door; Oh! Hard times come again no more. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise. [1] His name is now used generically to refer to someone who is hard and only concerned with cold facts and numbers.
Book 2 ('reaping') ends with Louisa collapsing at her father's feet. The words she uses are something like 'let me fall on the ground!'. Peter Ackroyd, in his biography of Dickens, lays the connection between these words and Dickens' own final words ('on the ground'). Far-fetched, but an interesting fact nonetheless. -- Cugel 11:35, Jun 1, 2005 ...
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To boost slumping sales Dickens serialised his own novel, Hard Times, in weekly parts between 1 April and 12 August 1854. It had the desired effect, more than doubling the journal's circulation and encouraging the author, who remarked that he was, "three–parts mad, and the fourth delirious, with perpetual rushing at Hard Times". [3]
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