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Hard Times — Charles Dickens
Hard Times — Charles Dickens
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In industrial Coketown, facts reign supreme — but facts alone cannot satisfy the human heart. Dickens's most intense social novel skewers the dehumanizing effects of utilitarian philosophy.
Author: Charles Dickens
Genre: Fiction / Novel
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"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!" The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
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