Hard Times
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060
subjects: social problems, political fiction, domestic fiction, england [X], social problems-fiction; utilitarianism-fiction; married people-fiction; england-fiction, political, domestic