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No single extract could be fully representative of Dickens’s art in Hard Times; but the following analysis is offered as an example that may be helpful to the student called upon to undertake a similar exercise. It forms the opening of Book I, Chapter 5 (‘The Keynote’), and the lines are numbered here for ease of reference.
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Page, N. (1985). A Specimen Passage and Commentary. In: Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07934-6_5
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