00958cam a2200265 4500 513459698 TxAuBib 20140908120000.0 140908|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. The world's best reading edition. Pleasantville, NY: Readers Digest Association, 2006. 326 p.; 24 cm. Thomas Gradgrind, a practical man, brings up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative and emotional sides of their natures with devastating consequences. 20140908. Social problems--Fiction. Utilitarianism--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Political fiction. Domestic fiction. Satire. England--Fiction.