Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In the smoke-darkened industrial town of Coketown, facts are valued above imagination, profit above compassion, and human lives are measured by usefulness.Thomas Gradgrind has raised his children according to a rigid philosophy of reason and calculation, determined to banish fancy from their lives. Yet as Louisa and Tom grow older, the limits of that worldview become painfully clear. Around them, factory workers endure hardship, wealthy men defend their power, and personal choices become entangled with class, ambition, marriage, and betrayal.As the lives of Gradgrind’s family and the people of Coketown collide, certainty gives way to consequence.Sharp, moving, and deeply critical of industrial society, Hard Times is Charles Dickens’s powerful novel of class division, emotional repression, social injustice, and the human cost of reducing life to facts alone.
