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Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times — Charles Dickens’s novel of industrial Coketown, where Thomas Gradgrind subjects school and family to a creed of “Facts,” while mill owners reduce workers to numbers. Through Louisa Gradgrind and the laborer Stephen Blackpool, the story exposes the human cost of education without imagination and industry without compassion.

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