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Book Review of Hard Times

Hard Times
Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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A classic by Dickens, just not quite my cup of tea.
"Murdering the innocent! Facts, Facts. Teach these children facts, not fancies. Sense, not sentimentality. Conformity, not curiosity. Proof and demonstration, not poetry and drama. . . On this bleak tenet is run the Gradgrind model day school."