Kyle Harrison
to-read
Hard Times
Hard Times: For These Times
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Published
- 1854
- Pages
- 326
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Dickens’s shortest novel, set in the industrial mill town of Coketown, against the utilitarian creed of “facts, facts, facts” and what it does to schooling, work and family.
Where I heard about it
- @athenaeumbc — one of ~35 old books in a stack photographed by Athenaeum Book Club (October 2026) under the line “One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.” The full stack is listed on One of the hidden benefits… (tweet).
Connections
- Charles Dickens — author.
- One of the hidden benefits… (tweet) — the stack it came from.