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Hard times [sound recording (CD)] / Charles Dickens.
TITLE:
Hard times [sound recording (CD)] / Charles Dickens.
Publication Date:
1900-1999
Publication Information:
Bath, Eng. : Chivers/BBC audiobooks,
Edition:
Unabridged Sterling ed.
Physical Description:
8 sound discs (ca. 11 hr.) in 1 container.
Genre:
Additional Contributors:
Performer:
Read by Martin Jarvis.
Summary:
Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, he stigmatised the prevalent philosophy of Utilitarianism, which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780754054238
General Note:
Complete and unabridged.
Compact discs (CDs)
"These CDs have been indexed at intervals of approximately 5 minutes to help you find your place easily. The indexng is not audible."
