University of Basrah College of Education for Human Sciences Department of English COHESION IN CHARLES DICKENS’S HARD TIMES A Thesis Submitted to the Council of the College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Basrah in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Abbas Muhsin Salih Al-Maliki Supervised by Professor Ala’ Hussain Oda, PhD., Co-supervised by Assist. Professor Abdul-Settar Abdul-Latif, M.A, Litt. June, 2014 AD Shaban, 1435 AH