Hard Times

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

  • Interest Level: Grade 7 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 10

Mr. Gradgrind, views himself as the most practical man in Coketown. He has raised his children, Tom and Louisa, to be no-nonsense, unimaginative, and unsentimental. His friend—obnoxious, wealthy Josiah Bounderby—employs Tom as a clerk at his bank, and marries Louisa, thirty years his junior. But soon emotionally-repressed Louisa is nearly seduced into committing adultery, and unscrupulous Tom is suspected of robbing Bounderby’s bank. Will Louisa be able to make her father see the shortcomings of his personal philosophy before it’s too late? Or will Mr. Gradgrind be forced to reap what he sowed? Written by English author Charles Dickens, this satire of Victorian economic principles and social inequity was first published as a serial in Household Words over twenty weeks in 1854. This unabridged version is taken from the 1905 copyright edition.

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978-1-5124-0539-2
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Interest Level Grade 7 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 10
Genre Young Adult
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Brand First Avenue Classics ™
Imprint First Avenue Editions ™
Language English
Publication Date 2016-01-01
Text Type Fiction
BISACS FIC004000, FIC045000, FIC098040
Dewey 823'.8
Lexile 1060
ATOS Reading Level 9.3
Accelerated Reader® Points 20.0
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Author: Charles Dickens