Hard Times

Name: Hard Times
Author: Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles

Domestic fiction; Education -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Political fiction; Social problems -- Fiction; Utilitarianism -- Fiction

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                            By CHARLES DICKENS

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             _With illustrations by Marcus Stone_, _Maurice_
                     _Greiffenhagen_, _and F. Walker_

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                       LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD.
                    NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

                                   1905




CONTENTS

      _BOOK THE FIRST_.  _SOWING_
                                    PAGE
               CHAPTER I
_The One Thing Needful_                3
               CHAPTER II
_Murdering the Innocents_              4
              CHAPTER III
_A Loophole_                           8
               CHAPTER IV
_Mr. Bounderby_                       12
               CHAPTER V
_The Keynote_                         18
               CHAPTER VI
_Sleary’s Horsemanship_               23
              CHAPTER VII
_Mrs. Sparsit_                        33
              CHAPTER VIII
_Never Wonder_                        38
               CHAPTER IX
_Sissy’s Progress_                    43
               CHAPTER X
_Stephen Blackpool_                   49
               CHAPTER XI
_No Way Out_                          53
              CHAPTER XII
_The Old Woman_                       59
              CHAPTER XIII
_Rachael_                             63
              CHAPTER XIV
_The Great Manufacturer_              69
               CHAPTER XV
_Father and Daughter_                 73
              CHAPTER XVI
_Husband and Wife_                    79
     _BOOK THE SECOND_.  _REAPING_
               CHAPTER I
_Effects in the Bank_                 84
               CHAPTER II
_Mr. James Harthouse_                 94
              CHAPTER III
_The Whelp_                          101
               CHAPTER IV
_Men and Brothers_                   111
               CHAPTER V
_Men and Masters_                    105
               CHAPTER VI
_Fading Away_                        116
              CHAPTER VII
_Gunpowder_                          126
              CHAPTER VIII
_Explosion_                          136
               CHAPTER IX
_Hearing the Last of it_             146
               CHAPTER X
_Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase_           152
               CHAPTER XI
_Lower and Lower_                    156
              CHAPTER XII
_Down_                               163
     _BOOK THE THIRD_.  _GARNERING_
               CHAPTER I
_Another Thing Needful_              167
               CHAPTER II
_Very Ridiculous_                    172
              CHAPTER III
_Very Decided_                       179
               CHAPTER IV
_Lost_                               186
               CHAPTER V
_Found_                              193
               CHAPTER VI
_The Starlight_                      200
              CHAPTER VII

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