365 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2007 by Penguin.
3 stars
(1 review)
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds.
Subjects
- Social conditions
- Industrial revolution
- Fiction
Places
- Northern England