Hard times ( Editura : Transatlantic Press , Autor : Charles Dickens ISBN 9781908533746 )

Thomas Gradgrind , retired businessman and one of Coketown's most prominent citizens,runs his life and his school along strict utilitarian lines.Fact and reason are his governing principles; imagination and sentiment are to be abhorred,and suppresed.Gradrind's raises his children,Tom and Louisa,by the same soulless ,barren methonds,blighting their young lives.Shorn of emotion because of her upbringing,Louisa yields to a loveless mariagge to Gradrind's boastful,factory -owning friend,Josiah Bounderby,which at least will help advance the career of her beloved brother.Tom,meanwhile,rebels against the strictures of his childhood by falling into dissolute ways,culminating in a plan to rob Bounderby' s bank and allow a former employee to be implicated.
Dickens sets imagination,compassion and humanity against the sterility of cold hard reason in Hard Times,which he described as a satire on ''those who see figures and averages,and nothing else-the representatives of the wichedest and most enormous vice of this time.

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