Hard Times

Original title: Hard Times (English)

Summary

Hard Times: For These Times (atau lebih dikenal dengan Hard Times) merupakan novel karangan Charles Dickens yang pertama kali dipublikasikan dalam bentuk serial melalui majalah mingguan Household Words pada bulan April hingga Agustus 1854. Novel ini diterbitkan dalam bentuk buku di akhir tahun 1854. Salah satu alasan Charles Dickens menulis Hard Times dalam bentuk serial adalah untuk meningkatkan penjualan pada majalah mingguannya tersebut. Hard Times berkisah tentang kondisi sosial dan ekonomi masyarakat pada abad ke-19 ketika industrialisasi di Inggris dimulai. Buku ini memakai hinaan rasial dan hinaan lain pada zamannya sebagaimana ditulis; Panduan Buku menjelaskan kata-kata ini di tempat kata-kata itu muncul.

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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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