The novel was published as a serial in his weekly publication, Household Words. Sales were highly responsive and encouraging for Dickens who remarked that he was "Three parts mad, and the fourth delirious, with perpetual rushing at Hard Times". The novel was serialised, every week, between April 1 and August 12, 1854. It sold well, and a complete volume was published in August, totalling 110,000 words. Another related novel, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, was also published in this magazine.
Hard Times was for some time thought inferior to other works in the Dickens canon. It was considered perhaps too polemical. More recently it has been acclaimed again by critics as one of Dickens's important works, and the vividness of its language, its allegorical power, and engagement with issues of imagination, utilitarianism and domesticity acknowledged. The earlier great Dickens novels also appeared first in serial form.
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