Hard Times (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542440950)

Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits. He founds a school and charitably takes in one of the students, the kindly and imaginative Sissy Jupe, after the disappearance of her father, a circus entertainer.

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1542440955
ISBN-13: 9781542440950
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.60d