TY - BOOK AU - Charles Dickens AU - Jose,Gwen TI - Hard Times: an authoritative text SN - 9788175960510 U1 - 823/.8 C3802 H PY - 1998/// CY - New Delhi PB - W.W. Norton KW - Social problems KW - Hard times (Dickens, Charles) N1 - This edition of Hard Times is part of the Cambridge Literature series and has been specially prepared for students in schools and colleges who are studying the book as part of their English course. This study edition invites you to think about what happens when you read the novel and it suggests that you are not passively responding to words on the page which have only one agreed interpretation but that you are actively exploring and making new sense of what you read ER -