Hard Times Author: Charles Dickens

Product Details: ISBN: 9780141199566 Format: Paperback Pages: 368 Dims: 129mm x 129mm Pub Date: 26-07-12 Pub Country: United Kingdom Condition: NEW

Description: This is the Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens. 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humility' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimised weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognise the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery. The Penguin English Library contains 100 editions of the best fiction in the English language, from the eighteenth century and the first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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