SUMMARY OF HARD TIMES OF CHARLES DICKENS
SUMMARY OF HARD TIMES OF CHARLES DICKENS One of the most precious novels of Victorian era is HARD TIMES written by Charles Dickens.The setting is Coketown, an industrial community in the north of England, and the main plot concerns one of its leading Citizens, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, and his family. Gradgrind is a convinced advocate of the utilitarian philosophy of 'fact', and has brought up his children on this principle as well as spreading it more widely through a school that he has established. The story concerns the fates of his two eldest children, Tom and Louisa, and, to a lesser extent, of two of the pupils at the school , Sissy Jupe and Bitzer. As a result of their imagination and sense of beauty being starved throughout childhood, Tom and Louisa grow up to be bored and discontented, and in different ways their lives come to disaster. Tom robs the bank at which he works and has to flee the country; Louisa makes an unhappy marriage with Josiah Bound...