List $34.95Written by Charles Dickens - Performed by Martin Jarvis - Unabridged Fiction - 8 CASSETTES
Publisher, Audio Partners (October 2003)
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One of the most widely read of Dickens' major novels, Hard Times is Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of Coketown, a Lancashire mill town, in the 1840s. The novel is particularly harsh in indicting England's educational system, represented by Thomas Gradgrind, who runs a school in which he focuses on driving wonder, fancy, and imagination from children's minds to be replaced only by facts. Gradgrind finally sees the error of his ways and abandons Utilitarianism and resolves to learn the "philosophy" of the circus.
About the Author: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most popular, and greatest, novelists in any language. This classic was first published in 1854.
About the Performer: Martin Jarvis is one of the foremost audiobook readers of our time; he is one of the few winners of a Talkie Award for Reader of the Year from the British Spoken Word Publishers Assn., and he has won Audie Awards for Carry On, Jeeves, and The Third Man (both available from The Audio Partners). He has also read Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Essential King James Bible, and My Man Jeeves for The Audio Partners. Both My Man Jeeves and David Copperfield are 2002 Audie Award Finalists.
