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Author(s): Dickens, Charles
Reader(s): Lesser, Anton
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA311012
Barcode: 0730099011020
Release Date: 01/1997
DICKENS, C.: Hard Times (Abridged)
In this, Dickens’ most openly political novel, we discover the terrible human consequences of a ruthlessly materialistic philosophy in the lives of Thomas Gradgrind’s family, brought up to believe that only ‘Facts! Facts! Facts!’ have any meaning. Set in Coketown, a typical Lancashire milltown, the novel graphically exposes the truth about Victorian ‘progress’.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Dickens, Charles - Author
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
|  | 1 | The One Thing Needful | 01:45 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | Murdering The Innocents | 04:42 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 3 | Sowing: A Loophole | 05:34 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 4 | Mr Bounderby | 07:08 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 5 | The Key-Note | 04:04 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 6 | Sleary's Horsemanship | 10:52 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 7 | Mrs. Sparsit | 06:46 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 8 | Stephen Blackpool | 07:32 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 9 | No Way Out | 06:17 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 10 | The Old Woman | 03:48 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 11 | Rachael | 05:52 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 12 | The Great Manufacturer | 04:29 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 13 | Father And Daughter | 06:26 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 14 | Husband And Wife | 04:18 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Disc 2
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 1 | Effects in the Bank | 08:25 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | Mr James Harthouse | 08:31 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 3 | The Whelp | 03:18 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 4 | Men and Brothers | 06:56 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 5 | Men and Masters | 05:43 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 6 | Fading Away | 14:18 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 7 | Gunpowder | 09:54 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 8 | Explosion | 11:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 9 | Hearing the Last of It | 07:31 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 10 | Mrs Sparsit's Staircase | 03:55 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Lower And Lower | 08:05 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 2 | Down | 05:07 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 3 | Another Thing Needful | 05:38 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 4 | Very Ridiculous | 07:35 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 5 | Very Decided | 07:25 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 6 | Lost | 06:45 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 7 | Found | 08:44 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 8 | The Starlight | 08:37 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 9 | Whelp-Hunting | 09:44 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 10 | Philosophical | 03:16 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 11 | Final | 06:57 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 03:56:59