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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Flo Gibson
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Summary

Self-made cotton mill owner and braggart Josiah Bounderby marries Thomas Gradgrind's daughter, Louisa. He later accuses a dismissed laborer of stealing from his bank, but the culprit's identity is revealed as a surprise to everyone!

This Dickens tale, about the pratfalls of utilitarianism and the gifts of joy and love, is an underappreciated classic.

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