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Hard Times
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Published:
[United States] : Phoenix Books, Inc., 1996.
Content Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 16 min.)) : digital.
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Points: 20
Lexile measure:
1080L
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Description

In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older her senior, and Gradgrind' s son Tom goes to work in Bounderby's bank. But after Tom steals from his employer and Louisa flees the horrors of her marriage, Gradgrind must reconsider his lifelong devotion to facts and utility.

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Format:
eAudiobook
Edition:
Abridged.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781614674894, 1614674892
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 9.3, 20 Points
Lexile measure:
1080

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Read by Paul Scofield.
Description
In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older her senior, and Gradgrind' s son Tom goes to work in Bounderby's bank. But after Tom steals from his employer and Louisa flees the horrors of her marriage, Gradgrind must reconsider his lifelong devotion to facts and utility.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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APA Citation (style guide)

Dickens, C., & Scofield, P. (1996). Hard Times. Abridged. [United States], Phoenix Books, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Dickens, Charles and Paul, Scofield. 1996. Hard Times. [United States], Phoenix Books, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Dickens, Charles and Paul, Scofield, Hard Times. [United States], Phoenix Books, Inc, 1996.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Dickens, Charles, and Paul Scofield. Hard Times. Abridged. [United States], Phoenix Books, Inc, 1996.

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