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Classic fiction and drama · Secondary / sixth form

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

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A town organised around facts and production tests the limits of a narrow account of human needs. Read the schoolroom beside the factory and the circus, comparing different ways of valuing people and the consequences of treating emotion as an inconvenience.

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