{"id":1405,"date":"2020-04-17T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2020-12-12T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:32:43","slug":"hard-times-by-charles-dickens-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audiobooks\/hard-times-by-charles-dickens-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Times by Charles Dickens \u2014 Audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*** New Audiobook Release ***<!--more--><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">audiobook sample<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheVoiceofGoll%2Fvideos%2F204686494466721%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Hard-Times-Audiobook\/B0876GLPZB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hard Times on Audible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.co.uk\/pd\/Hard-Times-Audiobook\/B0876H6R9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hard Times on Audible UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hard-Times\/dp\/B0876GQ23V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hard Times on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Hard-Times\/dp\/B0876G83DW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hard Times on Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bc-heading bc-color-base bc-spacing-small bc-size-medium bc-text-bold\"><strong>Publisher's Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><i>Hard Times<\/i>\u00a0is set in and around Coketown, a fictitious, Victorian mill town in the North of England. A town of red brick, machinery, and tall chimneys. A town blackened by soot, shrouded in mist, and choked by smoke. The working men and women of Coketown, referred to generally as \"Hands\" as if they were merely extensions of the machinery they operate, and not individuals with loves and likes, memories and inclinations, souls to weary and souls to hope.<\/p>\n<p>Among the masters of Coketown are the boastful and blusterous Josiah Bounderby, mill owner and banker; and the founder of the Coketown school, Thomas Gradgrind, a man of rigid facts and calculations; Gradgrind's children, Louisa and Tom, are model examples of his educational system: replete with facts and useful knowledge, and without a taint of fancy.<\/p>\n<p>Other characters include the highly connected Mrs. Sparsit; and the tender-hearted circus girl, Sissy Jupe, and the genial circus master, Sleary, whose entertainments provide relief from the monotony of Coketown life.<\/p>\n<p><i>Hard Times<\/i>\u00a0is Charles Dickens' tenth and the shortest of his full-length novels. 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