About This Book
Hard Times is the most "Victorian" novel among the others by great Charles Dickens. It is the novel where under an external sentimentality there is rough furiousness of the realist writer, to whom imperfection of a human nature and darkness of a human soul are not the news, but still provoke rejecti...
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8h 20m
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180 WPM
6h 0m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 17m
fast reader
350 WPM
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5 h 60 min
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6 h 40 min
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9 h 60 min
Audio 2x
4 h 60 min
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