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unionmack 's review for:
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
I've been really glad to get back into Dickens lately. I enjoyed his writing as a teenager and have loved A Christmas Carol since I was a kid, but coming back to his major works as an adult has left me even more awestruck by his talents as a wordsmith, satirist, social critic, and master of characterization. So much of this story still feels so relevant today—it's a blistering indictment of the Victorian equivalent of "facts don't care about your feelings" capitalism and the way society educates not to allow its citizens to flourish but to shrink their souls and imaginations. It's at turns hilarious and tragic and, given its brevity compared to a lot of his other novels, a far less intimidating way to get your feet wet in his collection.