The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, violet-dyed river & hordes of downtrodden mill hands.

Here headmaster Thomas Gradgrind sternly prepares his pupils for their pre-determined fate as industrial fodder. Facts & figures are all that he will tolerate, because he scorns fancy & forbids any use of the imagination. Gradgrinds own children are brought up on the same bleak doctrine.

There will be tragic consequences, both for his submissive daughter Louisa & degenerate son Tom, before their father acknowledges the value of the human heart. Hard Times is Dickens shortest novel, yet one of his most politically controversial & hard-hitting.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781788280495
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 253
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm











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