Hard Times - The Original Classic Edition

from JeroenBerndsen

Though not completely a Dickens fan, Hard Times is an impressive political satire with humour. One of Dickens' less depressive novels. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he ...

from gypsysmom

Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago this month. To celebrate many BookCrossers decided to read one of his works in February. I decided to listen to this book. I had never heard of it before but I figured I couldn't go too far wrong with anything by Dickens. I especially like listening to his w...

from kambrogi

The story begins with Thomas Gradgrind, an educator raising his children on "facts, facts, facts," to the exclusion of creativity and imagination. The book follows his children as they grow and enter the world, and all the diverse individuals who feel the touch of his philosophy: those who embrac...

from LisaMaria_C

I was assigned Hard Times in high school, and actually remembered it as one of the few works by Dickens I had enjoyed. Rereading it, I did still enjoy it on the whole, but I still found in it so many of the qualities that put me off in Dickens--although often they're closely associated with quali...

from DeltaQueen50

Hard Times by Charles Dickens explores and exposes the working conditions in the factories of Northern England in the 1850's. Dickens was obviously a forward thinker and many of his novels point out conditions that needed improving, in Hard Times he turns his attention on the ambitious businessme...