Length9h 44m
About this audiobook
Hard Times is a powerful classic novel about education, industry, class, and the cost of reducing human life to facts, profit, and efficiency. Set in the fictional industrial town of Coketown, the story follows Thomas Gradgrind, a man who believes only in reason, statistics, and practical knowledge, and the emotional consequences this worldview has on his children, his students, and the society around him. Through characters shaped by factories, rigid schooling, social ambition, poverty, and moral blindness, the novel explores the conflict between imagination and utility, compassion and calculation, labor and power. At once a social critique and a deeply human story, Hard Times remains one of Charles Dickens's most direct and memorable attacks on industrial-age materialism. This Audiobook was narrated using AI-generated voice technology.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length9 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byAndrew Jackson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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