Hard Times

Hard Times (Unabridged)
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Martin JarvisRelease Date: 02-03-2005
Audio Length: 10 hours and 36 min.


Publisher's Summary
One of the most widely read of Dickens' major novels, Hard Times is Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of Coketown, a Lancashire mill town, in the 1840s. The novel is particularly harsh in indicting England's educational system, represented by Thomas Gradgrind, who runs a school in which he focuses on driving wonder, fancy, and imagination from children's minds to be replaced only by facts. Gradgrind finally sees the error of his ways and abandons Utilitarianism and resolves to learn the "philosophy" of the circus.