Barnaby Rudge-Charles Dickens, Kathleen Tillotson

Please read item description\nOXFORD ILLUSTRATED DICKENS\nHARD TIMES\n(CHARLES\nDICKENS)\nWith four\nillustrations by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen, and an introduction by Dingle\nFoot\n\u2018Hard Times\u2019\nwas originally printed as a serial in Nos. 210-29 of \u2018Household Words\u2019 from\nApril to August 1854 and was first issued in book form (as a single volume) in\nthe same year.\nFrom the\nintroduction:\n\u201CThe real\nexplanation (as I believe) why \u2018Hard Times\u2019 differs so widely from most of\nDickens\u2019s other books is simply that he was working in an unfamiliar milieu.  We are told that in order to get some local\ncolour for his story he went to Preston during a strike and was thoroughly\nbored and depressed.  The best thing in \u2018Hard\nTimes\u2019 are the descriptions of Coketown itself. \nThey convey with masterly realism the repulsive aspect of a Lancashire\nmanufacturing town during the 1850s.  But\nthere the realism ends.&nb.