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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Anton Lesser
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In this, Dickens' most openly political novel, we discover the terrible human consequences of a ruthlessly materialistic philosophy in the lives of Thomas Gradgrind's family, brought up to believe that only "Facts! Facts! Facts!" have any meaning. Set in Coketown, a typical Lancashire milltown, the novel graphically exposes the truth about Victorian "progress".

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Public Domain (P)1997 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.
Fiction Literary Fiction
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