An Easy Classic from Alison Larkin Presents.
What happens when we teach children everything, except how to be human?
Hard Times asks questions that feel startlingly current: What is an education worth if it leaves no room for creativity? What happens when profit matters more than people? And can a society obsessed with success remember how to care?
Simon Vance, the award-winning voice behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Interview with the Vampire and Bring up the Bodies, brilliantly captures the comedy, compassion and cruelty of Dicken's world, making this powerful novel a compelling listen for newcomers and Dickens fans alike.
Thomas Gradgrind believes in facts. His children are taught to dismiss imagination and distrust emotion. But when they enter the adult world of love, money and ambition, their education proves dangerously incomplete.
This edition includes a Student Guide as Told by Charles Dickens, in an imagined Dickens voice, offering an engaging look at the characters, themes and questions that make the novel as relevant today as ever.
