Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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Table of Contents

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I. The One Thing Needful

II. Murdering the Innocents

III. A Loophole

IV. Mr. Bounderby

V. The Keynote

VI. Sleary's Horsemanship

VII. Mrs. Sparsit

VIII. Never Wonder

IX. Sissy's Progress

X. Stephen Blackpool

XI. No Way Out

XII. The Old Woman

XIII. Rachael

XIV. The Great Manufacturer

XV. Father and Daughter

XVI. Husband and Wife

I. Effects in the Bank

II. Mr. James Harthouse

III. The Whelp

IV. Men and Brothers

V. Men and Masters

VI. Fading Away

VII. Gunpowder

VIII. Explosion

IX. Hearing the Last of It

X. Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase

XI. Lower and Lower

XII. Down

I. Another Thing Needful

II. Very Ridiculous

III. Very Decided

IV. Lost

V. Found

VI. The Starlight

VII. Whelp-Hunting

VIII. Philosophical

IX. Final

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