Binding: Paperback
Description: Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown where Mr Thomas Gradgrind school owner and model of Utilitarian success feeds his pupils and his family with facts banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in crime. As their fortunes cross with those of a free - spirited circus girl and a victimized weaver Gradgrind is forced to question everything he believes in. Edited with an Introduction and notes by KATE Flint
Title: Hard Times
Author(s): Dickens Charles
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439679
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Category: Classic Fiction