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Blurb: “Murdering the Innocent! Facts, Facts, Facts.
Teach these children facts, not fancies. Sense, not sentimentality. Conformity, not curios-ity. Proof and demonstration, not poetry and drama. ... On this bleak tenet is run the Gradgrind model day school in Hard Times.
No other work of Dickens presents so relentless an indictment against the callous greed
• of the Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy as this fiercest of his novels. With savage bitterness Dickens unmasks the hellish industries that imprisoned the bodies of the helpless labor class and the equally satanic institutions that shackled the development of their minds.
"Carlyle never voiced a more burning denunciation of the dismal science of classical economic theory."
—Edgar Johnson
"This is Karl Marx, Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris, Carpenter, rising up against civilization itself as a disease. ..
—G. Bernard Shaw. - With an Afterword by Charles Shapiro”