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''It is proof of Dickens'' genius (or maybe just the unchanging nature of Britain) that you can read Hard Times as if it were all happening now'' Guardian

''Facts alone are wanted in life''

The children at Mr Gradgrind''s school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects o

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A masterpiece...a completely serious work of art -- F.R.Leavis
The greatest of Dickens' work...should be studied with close and earnest care -- John Ruskin
Big and earnest, though circus folk and bank robbery add colour to its canvas of industrialists and loveless marriages * Sunday Times *

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    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 05/02/2009
    ISBN13: 9780099518921, 978-0099518921
    ISBN10: 0099518929
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''It is proof of Dickens'' genius (or maybe just the unchanging nature of Britain) that you can read Hard Times as if it were all happening now'' Guardian

    ''Facts alone are wanted in life''

    The children at Mr Gradgrind''s school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects o

    Trade Review
    A masterpiece...a completely serious work of art -- F.R.Leavis
    The greatest of Dickens' work...should be studied with close and earnest care -- John Ruskin
    Big and earnest, though circus folk and bank robbery add colour to its canvas of industrialists and loveless marriages * Sunday Times *

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