Hard Times door
Jacques Martin, Anouche Adams & Fred Kaplan Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects ofmid19thcentury industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children Tomand Louisa in a sterile atmosphere of strict practicality. With no guidingprinciples the young Gradgrinds sink into lives of desperation and despairplayed out against the grim backdrop of Coketown a wretched industrialcommunity.
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