{"product_id":"hard-times-charles-dickens","title":"Hard Times (Charles Dickens)","description":"\u003cem\u003eHard Times\u003c\/em\u003e is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.\n\n\u003cem\u003eHard Times\u003c\/em\u003e is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens’s novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, \u003cem\u003eHard Times\u003c\/em\u003e has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.\n\nOne of Dickens’s reasons for writing \u003cem\u003eHard Times\u003c\/em\u003e was that sales of his weekly periodical Household Words were low, and it was hoped the novel’s publication in installments would boost circulation – as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eWarning:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.\n\u003cstrong\u003eUyarı:\u003c\/strong\u003e Agora Bilim Pazarı'ndaki diğer birçok kitabın aksine, bu kitap İngilizcedir.","brand":"Panama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957406417151,"sku":"SB-B-000596","price":300.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/8287\/7439\/files\/6c365ab87672323da214aaef75047865.jpg?v=1778921806","url":"https:\/\/agora.evrimagaci.org\/products\/hard-times-charles-dickens","provider":"Agora Bilim Pazarı","version":"1.0","type":"link"}