Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

Hard Times
and
Reprinted Pieces [0]

By CHARLES DICKENS

With illustrations by Marcus Stone, Maurice
Greiffenhagen, and F. Walker

LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1905

CONTENTS

BOOK THEFIRST. SOWING
	PAGE
CHAPTER I
The One Thing Needful	[3]
CHAPTER II
Murdering the Innocents	[4]
CHAPTER III
A Loophole	[8]
CHAPTER IV
Mr. Bounderby	[12]
CHAPTER V
The Keynote	[18]
CHAPTER VI
Sleary’s Horsemanship	[23]
CHAPTER VII
Mrs. Sparsit	[33]
CHAPTER VIII
Never Wonder	[38]
CHAPTER IX
Sissy’s Progress	[43]
CHAPTER X
Stephen Blackpool	[49]
CHAPTER XI
No Way Out	[53]
CHAPTER XII
The Old Woman	[59]
CHAPTER XIII
Rachael	[63]
CHAPTER XIV
The Great Manufacturer	[69]
CHAPTER XV
Father and Daughter	[73]
CHAPTER XVI
Husband and Wife	[79]
BOOK THESECOND. REAPING
CHAPTER I
Effects in the Bank	[84]
CHAPTER II
Mr. James Harthouse	[94]
CHAPTER III
The Whelp	[101]
CHAPTER IV
Men and Brothers	[111]
CHAPTER V
Men and Masters	[105]
CHAPTER VI
Fading Away	[116]
CHAPTER VII
Gunpowder	[126]
CHAPTER VIII
Explosion	[136]
CHAPTER IX
Hearing the Last of it	[146]
CHAPTER X
Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase	[152]
CHAPTER XI
Lower and Lower	[156]
CHAPTER XII
Down	[163]
BOOK THETHIRD. GARNERING
CHAPTER I
Another Thing Needful	[167]
CHAPTER II
Very Ridiculous	[172]
CHAPTER III
Very Decided	[179]
CHAPTER IV
Lost	[186]
CHAPTER V
Found	[193]
CHAPTER VI
The Starlight	[200]
CHAPTER VII
Whelp-Hunting	[208]
CHAPTER VIII
Philosophical	[216]
CHAPTER IX
Final	[222]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
Stephen and Rachael in the Sick-room	[64]
Mr. Harthouse Dining at the Bounderbys’	[100]
Mr. Harthouse and Tom Gradgrind in the Garden	[132]
Stephen Blackpool recovered from the Old Hell Shaft	[206]

BOOK THE FIRST
SOWING