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Charles Dickens
"There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart."
Thomas Gradgrind believes only in Facts. In the grey industrial town of Coketown, he raises his children on a strict diet of utility and reason, leaving no room for imagination, emotion, or wonder. But facts alone cannot account for grief, love, or the need for beauty — and Gradgrind's system will exact a devastating price from those it shapes.
The shortest and most concentrated of Dickens's mature novels, Hard Times is also his most direct: a fierce, precisely targeted attack on the utilitarian philosophy that he believed was draining Victorian England of its humanity. Against the grey machinery of industrial Coketown, he sets the colour and spontaneity of Sleary's circus — the novel's emblem of everything that facts and profits cannot contain. Dickens at his sharpest and most disciplined.
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