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Author(s): Dickens, Charles
Reader(s): Lesser, Anton
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA0023
Barcode: 9781843794431
Release Date: 01/2011
DICKENS, C.: Hard Times (Unabridged)
Hard Times is Dickens’s most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in the fictional Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge in imagination. Gradgrind’s own children have been educated thus, and as a result are dysfunctional and disconnected from their feelings. Only Sleary’s travelling circus company seems to offer any hope of humanity in Coketown. Hard Times is a deeply moving story written in anger to strike a blow for the victims of the dehumanising processes of industry.
Tracklist
Disc 1
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1 | Book 1: Sowing Chapter 1: The One Thing Needful | 02:23 |
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2 | Chapter 2: Murdering The Innocents | 06:31 |
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3 | 'Very well,' said this gentleman… | 06:18 |
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4 | Chapter 3: A Loophole | 06:24 |
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5 | Thomas Gradgrind took no heed… | 04:44 |
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6 | Chapter 4: Mr. Bounderby | 09:19 |
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7 | 'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind… | 06:32 |
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8 | Chapter 5: The Keynote | 08:13 |
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9 | 'Why are you tearing about the streets…' | 04:32 |
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10 | Chapter 6: Sleary’s Horsemanship | 04:38 |
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11 | 'By your leaves, gentleman!'… | 06:27 |
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12 | 'Pray', said Mr. Gradgrind… | 05:51 |
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13 | 'Squire!' said Mr. Sleary… | 06:42 |
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Disc 2
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1 | 'Be sure you know your own mind, Jupe,'… | 05:35 |
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2 | Chapter 7: Mrs. Sparsit | 07:17 |
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3 | 'I'm not going to take him at once…' | 07:54 |
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4 | Chapter 8: Never Wonder | 06:13 |
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5 | 'It's a great pity…' | 06:35 |
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6 | Chapter 9: Sissy's Progress | 08:13 |
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7 | 'Did your father love her?' | 09:04 |
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8 | Chapter 10: Stephen Blackpool | 07:17 |
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9 | 'Always a muddle?'… | 05:41 |
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10 | Chapter 11: No Way Out | 08:41 |
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11 | In the strength of his misfortune… | 04:59 |
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Disc 3
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1 | Stephen, subsiding into his quiet manner… | 03:33 |
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2 | Chapter 12: The Old Woman | 07:53 |
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3 | She was gone by and by… | 03:41 |
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4 | Chapter 13: Rachael | 09:18 |
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5 | Out of what mystery he came back… | 08:47 |
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6 | Chapter 14: The Great Manufacturer | 06:08 |
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7 | All this while, Louisa… | 05:05 |
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8 | Chapter 15: Father And Daughter | 10:46 |
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9 | Removing her eyes from him… | 09:10 |
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10 | Chapter 16: Husband and Wife | 12:59 |
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Disc 4
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1 | Book 2: Reaping Chapter 1: Effects In The Bank | 05:02 |
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2 | Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment… | 06:38 |
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3 | 'Has it been a busy day, Bitzer?'… | 09:04 |
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4 | Here the visitor all unconscious… | 05:27 |
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5 | The inattention and indolence of his manner… | 05:43 |
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6 | Chapter 2: Mr. James Harthouse | 07:57 |
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7 | They went out without further discourse… | 06:20 |
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8 | 'You are a singular politician…' | 04:51 |
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9 | Chapter 3: The Whelp | 04:03 |
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10 | 'That's the past tense, Tom,'… | 06:56 |
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11 | Chapter 4: Men And Brothers | 05:52 |
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12 | The assembly was divided at this point. | 04:48 |
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13 | 'My brothers,' said Stephen… | 05:22 |
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Disc 5
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1 | Thus easily did Stephen Blackpool fall… | 03:19 |
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2 | Chapter 5: Men And Masters | 07:20 |
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3 | Stephen bent his head to the gentleman… | 07:40 |
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4 | Chapter 6: Fading Away | 08:03 |
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5 | Age, especially when it strives… | 06:53 |
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6 | 'I have come to speak to you…' | 06:10 |
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7 | Stephen followed him out… | 05:00 |
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8 | It was but a hurried parting… | 05:36 |
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9 | Chapter 7: Gunpowder | 07:56 |
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10 | It was among the leafy shadows… | 06:07 |
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11 | 'Mrs Bounderby,' said Harthouse… | 08:34 |
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12 | They walked on to the house… | 07:20 |
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Disc 6
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1 | Chapter 8: Explosion | 06:37 |
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2 | Bitzer knuckled his forehead again. | 07:48 |
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3 | It soon appeared that if Mrs. Sparsit… | 06:33 |
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4 | Long after Louisa had undressed… | 06:44 |
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5 | Chapter 9: Hearing The Last Of It | 05:17 |
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6 | This again made the excellent woman vastly sentimental. | 07:18 |
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7 | She went with a heavy, hardened kind of sorrow… | 06:23 |
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8 | Chapter 10: Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase | 04:49 |
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9 | The same evening, Mrs. Sparsit… | 04:53 |
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10 | Chapter 11: Lower and Lower | 06:23 |
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11 | Next day, Saturday, Mrs. Sparsit sat… | 08:15 |
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12 | Mrs. Sparsit saw her out of the wood… | 04:25 |
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Disc 7
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1 | Chapter 12: Down | 04:24 |
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2 | He moved, to support her with his arm. | 05:03 |
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3 | Book 3: Garnering Chapter 1: Another Thing Needful | 05:10 |
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4 | 'My dear, I have remained all night at my table…' | 09:32 |
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5 | Chapter 2: Very Ridiculous | 04:46 |
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6 | It was impossible, even before dinner… | 06:07 |
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7 | 'Well! If it should unhappily appear…' | 04:26 |
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8 | If she had asserted any influence… | 05:54 |
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9 | Chapter 3: Very Decided | 04:49 |
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10 | 'Well, ma'am,' said Bounderby… | 04:56 |
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11 | The blusterous Bounderby crimsoned… | 07:50 |
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12 | Chapter 4: Lost | 06:32 |
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13 | 'Who is it?', asked Louisa. | 08:40 |
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1 | Since his sheet-anchor had come home… | 04:56 |
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2 | Chapter 5: Found | 06:55 |
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3 | The spectacle of a matron… | 08:26 |
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4 | 'I don't exactly know,'… | 03:59 |
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5 | Chapter 6: The Starlight | 05:36 |
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6 | The wide prospect, so beautiful… | 08:03 |
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7 | When all was ready… | 08:27 |
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8 | Chapter 7: Whelp-Hunting | 07:51 |
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9 | The first thing they saw… | 09:08 |
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Disc 9
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1 | Mr. Gradgrind arrived within an hour… | 07:45 |
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2 | Chapter 8: Philosophical | 08:10 |
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3 | The other three sat up at the inn all night… | 06:38 |
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4 | Chapter 9: Final | 07:24 |
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5 | Here was Mr. Gradgrind on the same day… | 05:13 |
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Total Playing Time: 10:43:29