description: Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important that feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe - a circus child - is left along in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teacher he facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa became a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and imagination.
language: English
title: Hard Times
titlecomplete: Hard Times (Dominoes)
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Oxford University Press