Websites
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So, you can search for specific passages, and so you don't have to type out long quotations.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about our favorite repressed ancestors brought to you by Brown University.
Movie or TV Productions
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IMDB readers seem to really be into this one – check out those 9 out of 10 stars!
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The least known but arguably the best of the novel's adaptations.
Historical Documents
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Dickens wrote detailed chapter plans, where you can see how his thoughts and ideas evolved, and how he made the choices that he made while writing.
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An article Dickens wrote about the strike he saw first hand in Preston, just before he started to write Hard Times.
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A long discussion of his works up until that point, including Hard Times, in PDF format.
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Get a sense of what the novel looked like when published in this weekly journal – this is a facsimile copy of the whole year's volume – hurray for Google Books!
Video
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A kind of animated graphic novel. Check out Coketown!
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A short cartoon of Gradgrind in his school telling the kids what's what.
Images
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Originally, Hard Times was published without illustrations – but of course at some point (about 20 years later) somebody came along and drew some.
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Um, yeah. What that title says is what you get.