Hard Times - Charles Dickens

In the industrial town of Coketown, strict schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children on facts and logic, denying them imagination and emotion. His philosophy leads to misery for his family and students, including the kindhearted but oppressed Sissy Jupe. As lives unravel under the weight of greed and utilitarian ideals, compassion and humanity emerge as the true measures of worth. Through moral reckoning, Dickens exposes the dehumanizing effects of an industrial, fact-obsessed society.

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