Binding: Hardcover
Description: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award - winning Coralie Bickford - Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high - quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity Mr Bounderby and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And as their fortunes cross with those of free - spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.
Title: Hard Times
Author(s): Dickens Charles
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141198347
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 3/31/2012
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Fiction