Hard Times (version 2 dramatic reading) by Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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Hard Times (version 2 dramatic reading) by Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) is a arts podcast hosted by LibriVox. It has 37 episodes, with the latest published January 1970.
Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes "facts and calculations." He raises his children, most prominently Louisa and Tom, to eschew imagination and emotion and embrace order and reason. The results are disastrous: Louisa marries out of duty to the supposed self-made man Mr. Bounderby, while Tom grows up dissolute, ultimately commits theft and blames it on an unfortunate laborer, Stephen Blackpool. Set in the fictional Coketown, a mill town in the north of England, Dickens' novel satirizes capitalism, social mobility, class stratification, and Utilitarianism. This dramatic reading of the novel features a full cast of LibriVox volunteers, who lend their voices to Dickens' vibrant comic characters. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)CastNarrator: Bob NeufeldMr. Gradgrind: Mar
arts ·en ·37 episodes
Book 2, Chapter 06, Fading Away
Book 2, Chapter 07, Gunpowder
Book 2, Chapter 08, Explosion
Book 2, Chapter 09, Hearing the Last of It
Book 2, Chapter 10, Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase
Book 2, Chapter 11, Lower and Lower
Book 2, Chapter 12, Down
Book 3, Chapter 01, Another Thing Needful
Book 3, Chapter 02, Very Ridiculous
Book 3, Chapter 03, Very Decided
Book 3, Chapter 04, Lost
Book 3, Chapter 05, Found
Book 3, Chapter 06, The Starlight
Book 3, Chapter 07, Whelp-Hunting
Book 3, Chapter 08, Philosophical
Book 3, Chapter 09, Final
Book 1, Chapter 05, The Keynote
Book 1, Chapter 06, Sleary's Horsemanship
Book 1, Chapter 07, Mrs. Sparsit
Book 1, Chapter 08, Never Wonder
Book 1, Chapter 09, Sissy's Progress
Book 1, Chapter 10, Stephen Blackpool
Book 1, Chapter 11, No Way Out
Book 1, Chapter 12, The Old Woman
Book 1, Chapter 13, Rachael
Book 1, Chapter 14, The Great Manufacturer
Book 1, Chapter 15, Father and Daughter
Book 1, Chapter 16, Husband and Wife
Book 2, Chapter 01, Effects in the Bank
Book 2, Chapter 02, Mr. James Harthouse
Book 2, Chapter 03, The Whelp
Book 2, Chapter 04, Men and Brothers
Book 2, Chapter 05, Men and Masters
Book 1, Chapter 01, The One Thing Needful
Book 1, Chapter 02, Murdering the Innocents
Book 1, Chapter 03, A Loophole
Book 1, Chapter 04, Mr. Bounderby
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