CD Import

Dickens: Hard Times -Unabridged

Anton Lesser

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Catalogue Number
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NA0023
Number of Discs
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9
Format
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CD
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Import

Product Description

Hard Times is Dickens's most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in the fictional Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge in imagination. Gradgrind's own children have been educated thus, and as a result are dysfunctional and disconnected from their feelings. Only Sleary's travelling circus company seems to offer any hope of humanity in Coketown. Hard Times is a deeply moving story written in anger to strike a blow for the.

Track List   

Disc   1

  • 01. Book 1: Sowing Chapter 1: The One Thing Needful
  • 02. Chapter 2: Murdering The Innocents
  • 03. Very Well, Said This Gentleman
  • 04. Chapter 3: A Loophole
  • 05. Thomas Gradgrind took no heed
  • 06. Chapter 4: Mr. Bounderby
  • 07. Bounderby, Said Mr. Gradgrind
  • 08. Chapter 5: The Keynote
  • 09. Why are you tearing about the streets
  • 10. Chapter 6: Slearys Horsemanship
  • 11. By Your Leaves, Gentleman!
  • 12. Pray, Said Mr. Gradgrind
  • 13. Squire! said Mr. Sleary

Disc   2

  • 01. Be Sure You Know Your Own Mind, Jupe
  • 02. Chapter 7: Mrs. Sparsit
  • 03. I'm Not Going to Take Hi'm at Once
  • 04. Chapter 8: Never Wonder
  • 05. It's a Great Pity
  • 06. Chapter 9: Sissys Progress
  • 07. Did your father love her?
  • 08. Chapter 10: Stephen Blackpool
  • 09. Always a muddle?
  • 10. Chapter 11: No Way Out
  • 11. In the strength of his misfortune

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