Hard Times Binding:Paperback her honed ability to control

her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments

Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies

was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home

Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth

Hard Times Binding:Paperback her honed ability to controlAn 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