Step 1: Match works to their authors.
\textit{Hard Times} → Charles Dickens
\textit{Midnight’s Children} → Salman Rushdie
\textit{Sons and Lovers} → D.H. Lawrence
\textit{Time Machine} → H.G. Wells Step 2: Identify the Dickens work.
Among the four, only \textit{Hard Times} is written by Charles Dickens.
Hence, the correct answer is (1) \textit{Hard Times.}