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Hard Times
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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The highest priority for Thomas Gradgrind, head of the Gradgrind model day school, is his version of education - feeding the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and sense over sentiment...only to find himself betrayed by the very standards that govern his own unhappy life.
Hard Times is Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy. And Thomas Gradgrind is one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, Hard Times is also a daring novel of ideas---and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and the limitless possibilities of the imagination.
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- Ani Vanderploeg
- 2022-01-22
required for school
i had to read this book for university, but i also work full time. listening to it at work was a pleasure and the performance was amazing. also very glad that it was free on here
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