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040			_aNISER LIBRARY _beng _cNISER LIBRARY
082			_a82-31 _bDIC-H
100			_aDickens, Charles
245			_aHard times
260			_aCalcutta : _bRadha Publishing House, _c2005.
300			_axxx, 310 pages
520			_aTo deceive others successfully, it is very much necessary to deceive oneself. Dickens knew this when he created characters like Bounderby and Gradgrind in Hard Times, a superb comedy, in which an onslaught on an age and a social system is fundamental. Bounderby's bombast rests on his conviction that he is a self-made man, coming straight from the gutter, while in reality his mother slaved to make him what he is. Gradgrind seeks to give his children and others the enlightened education by condemning them to a diet of hard facts. But even then they remain very much credible figures.
650			_aSocial problems _vFiction
650			_aUtilitarianism _vFiction
650			_aEducation _vFiction
651			_aEngland _vFiction
655			_aPolitical fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
856			_3Electronic version _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/786/786-h/786-h.htm
856			_3Reviews _uhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5344.Hard_Times?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10#CommunityReviews
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