description: Reason, Facts, and statistics...Dickensa scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideasaand ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.
language: English
title: Hard Times
titlecomplete: Hard Times
characters: Stephen Blackpool, Sissy Jupe, James Harthouse, Thomas Gradgrind, Josiah Bounderby, Mr. M'Choakumchild, Louisa Gradgrind, Mrs. Sparsit
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 66510
places: Coketown
publisher: Signet Classics