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Title: Hard Times

Author: Charles Dickens

Release Date: March 17, 2013 [eBook #786]
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Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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By CHARLES DICKENS

With illustrations by Marcus Stone, Maurice
Greiffenhagen, and F. Walker

LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1905

BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING
	PAGE
CHAPTER I
The One Thing Needful	3
CHAPTER II
Murdering the Innocents	4
CHAPTER III
A Loophole	8
CHAPTER IV
Mr. Bounderby	12
CHAPTER V
The Keynote	18
CHAPTER VI
Sleary’s Horsemanship	23
CHAPTER VII
Mrs. Sparsit	33
CHAPTER VIII
Never Wonder	38
CHAPTER IX
Sissy’s Progress	43
CHAPTER X
Stephen Blackpool	49
CHAPTER XI
No Way Out	53
CHAPTER XII
The Old Woman	59
CHAPTER XIII
Rachael	63
CHAPTER XIV
The Great Manufacturer	69
CHAPTER XV
Father and Daughter	73
CHAPTER XVI
Husband and Wife	79
BOOK THE SECOND. REAPING
CHAPTER I
Effects in the Bank	84
CHAPTER II
Mr. James Harthouse	94
CHAPTER III
The Whelp	101
CHAPTER IV
Men and Brothers	111
CHAPTER V
Men and Masters	105
CHAPTER VI
Fading Away	116
CHAPTER VII
Gunpowder	126
CHAPTER VIII
Explosion	136
CHAPTER IX
Hearing the Last of it	146
CHAPTER X
Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase	152
CHAPTER XI
Lower and Lower	156
CHAPTER XII
Down	163
BOOK THE THIRD. GARNERING
CHAPTER I
Another Thing Needful	167
CHAPTER II
Very Ridiculous	172
CHAPTER III
Very Decided	179
CHAPTER IV
Lost	186
CHAPTER V
Found	193
CHAPTER VI
The Starlight	200
CHAPTER VII
Whelp-Hunting	208
CHAPTER VIII
Philosophical	216
CHAPTER IX
Final	222

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