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Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
Hard Times was a 1977 TV series based on Charles Dickens' 1854 novel of the same name, directed by John Irvin. [1] [2] Cast.
Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise. [1] His name is now used generically to refer to someone who is hard and only concerned with cold facts and numbers.
Hard Times, a silent British film directed by Thomas Bentley based on Dickens' novel; Welcome to Hard Times, a 1967 American Western film; Hard Times, an American drama starring Charles Bronson
[13] [14]: 147 Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854) is set in a small Midlands industrial town. It particularly criticizes the effect of Utilitarianism on the lives of the working classes in cities. John Ruskin declared Hard Times to be his favourite Dickens work due to its exploration of important social questions.
3/5 Ben Power’s deft adaptation of Dickens’s sprawling novel emphasises its brilliant characters and eternally relevant themes, but the bleak production and dour music wrestle with one another ...
Hard Times is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Bransby Williams, Leon M. Lion and Dorothy Bellew. It is based on the 1854 novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens .
Nominally updating Charles Dickens’ much-filmed yarn of crime, punishment and improvised family to the streets and rooftops of 21st-century London, Martin Owen’s film instead feels instantly ...