Hard Times (Unabridged) AudioBook Download

Hard Times (Unabridged)
Rating : 4.3/5
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : AudioGO
Narrator : Martin Jarvis
Released on : 03-FEB-2005
Audio Length : 10 hours and 36 min.
Type : unabridged
ISBN : 9781572703360
Format : AudioBook
Retail Price : $34.95
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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. Read more   Add to Favorites / Bookmark : Ctrl + D
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Keywords :Industrial Revolution, mill town, education, England