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Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Paul Scofield
Abridged: 3 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
Published: 06/01/1996
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
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.