Hard Times

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.’Set in fictitious Coketown, England during the Industrial Revolution of the 1850s, Dickens wished to expose the eno...