Hard times is very based on materialism ... he has no tenderness to his pupils. • From line 7 Dickens starts describing the situation: concentration on the character’s look, that is ...

About social problems: Bleak House, Hard times and Great Expectation. He died in 1870 and was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. Dickens created caricatures exaggerating the social ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles ...