TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Schlicke,Paul TI - Hard times SN - 0195671716 AV - PR4561 .S35 1989 U1 - 823.8 PY - 1989/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English fiction KW - 19th century N1 - Political fiction Domestic fiction Fiction; Bibliography: p. 429-430; English N2 - Summary: Hard Times was written to 'shake some people in a terrible mistake of these days', as Dickens put in a letter to Thomas Carlyle. The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/hard-times/oclc/18072577&referer=brief_results ER -