Hard times
Subtitle: for these times
By: Charles Dickens
Series: Penguin red classics; Red classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780141031729
Subjects: Social conditions; Industrial revolution; Fiction
Description: 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 bans fancy and wonder from any young minds.