Hard times
(1996)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Phoenix Books, Inc., 1996
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 16 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781614674894 MWT15436611, 1614674892 15436611
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Paul Scofield
In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older her senior, and Gradgrind' s son Tom goes to work in Bounderby's bank. But after Tom steals from his employer and Louisa flees the horrors of her marriage, Gradgrind must reconsider his lifelong devotion to facts and utility
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