Les Temps difficiles

Original title: Hard Times (English)

by Charles Dickens

Summary

Les Temps difficiles (Hard Times for These Times) est le dixième roman de Charles Dickens, un court roman paru non pas en publications mensuelles comme les précédents, mais en feuilleton hebdomadaire dans sa revue Household Words, du 1er avril au 12 août 1854. Ce livre emploie tels quels les termes injurieux, raciaux et autres, de son époque ; le Guide du livre explique ces mots là où ils apparaissent.

From Wikipedia (French): Les Temps difficiles (roman) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Chapters (37)

  1. 1. The One Thing Needful
  2. 2. Murdering the Innocents
  3. 3. A Loophole
  4. 4. Mr. Bounderby
  5. 5. The Keynote
  6. 6. Sleary’s Horsemanship
  7. 7. Mrs. Sparsit
  8. 8. Never Wonder
  9. 9. Sissy’s Progress
  10. 10. Stephen Blackpool
  11. 11. No Way Out
  12. 12. The Old Woman
  13. 13. Rachael
  14. 14. The Great Manufacturer
  15. 15. Father and Daughter
  16. 16. Husband and Wife
  17. 17. Effects in the Bank
  18. 18. Mr. James Harthouse
  19. 19. The Whelp
  20. 20. Men and Brothers
  21. 21. Men and Masters
  22. 22. Fading Away
  23. 23. Gunpowder
  24. 24. Explosion
  25. 25. Hearing the Last of It
  26. 26. Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase
  27. 27. Lower and Lower
  28. 28. Down
  29. 29. Another Thing Needful
  30. 30. Very Ridiculous
  31. 31. Very Decided
  32. 32. Lost
  33. 33. Found
  34. 34. The Starlight
  35. 35. Whelp-Hunting
  36. 36. Philosophical
  37. 37. Final

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