(P/B) HARD TIMES

Παρουσίαση

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.'
The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects of Gradgrind's teaching on his own children, Tom and Louisa, are particularly profound and leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart. Luckily for them they have a friend in Sissy Jupe, the child of a circus clown, who retains her warm-hearted, compassionate nature despite the pressures around her. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of Characters
List of Illustrations
BOOK THE FIRST Sowing
I The One Thing Needful
II Murdering the Innocents
III A Loophole
IV Mr Bounderby
V The Key-note
VI Sleary's Horsemanship
VII Mrs Sparsit
VIII Never Wonder
IX Sissy's Progress
X Stephen Blackpool
XI No Way Out
XII The Old Woman
XIII Rachael
XIV The Great Manufacturer
XV Father and Daughter
XVI Husband and Wife
BOOK THE SECOND Reaping
I Effects in the Bank
II Mr James Harthouse
III The Whelp
IV Men and Brothers
V Men and Masters
VI Fading Away
VII Gunpowder
VIII Explosion
IX Hearing the Last of It
X Mrs Sparsit's Staircase
XI Lower and Lower
XII Down
BOOK THE THIRD Garnering
I Another Thing Needful
II Very Ridiculous
III Very Decided
VI Lost
V Found
VI The Starlight
VII Whelp-hunting
VIII Philosophical
IX Final