Bibliograph

Hard times /, Charles Dickens

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Hard times /, Charles Dickens

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hard times /

Responsibility statement

Charles Dickens

Summary

In the depressed mill town of Coketown, schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind lives to impose his version of education: feeding the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity, and logic over sentiment, only to have his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family. 'Hard Times' is Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy

Target audience

adult

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