Hard Times

Charles Dickens

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Adrian, Arthur A. Dickens and the Parent-Child Relationship. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1984.

Barnard, Robert. Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens. New York: Humanities Press, 1974.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Hard Times (Modern Critical Interpretations). New York: Chelsea House, 1992.

Glancy, Ruth. Student Companion to Charles Dickens. Greenwood, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Hardy, Barbara. The Moral Art of Dickens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Higbie, Robert. Dickens and Imagination. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.

Leavis, F. R. and Q. D. Leavis. Dickens the Novelist. London: Chatto and Windus, 1970.

Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie. Dickens: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Manning, Sylvia Bank. Dickens as Satirist. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.

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