Hard Times - The Charles Dickens Children's Collection Susan Cochrane If you and your partner

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Hard Times - The Charles Dickens Children's Collection Susan Cochrane If you and your partner"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality. Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out