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Charles Dickens: Hard Times (unabridged)

read by Anton Lesser

  • Release Date: 19th Oct 2011
  • Catalogue No: NA0023
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

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Contents

Charles Dickens: Hard Times (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Hats Off Studios, Oxford

Book 1: Sowing Chapter 1: The One Thing Needful

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Chapter 2: Murdering The Innocents

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'Very well,' said this gentleman…

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Chapter 3: A Loophole

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Thomas Gradgrind took no heed…

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Chapter 4: Mr. Bounderby

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'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind…

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Chapter 5: The Keynote

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'Why are you tearing about the streets…'

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Chapter 6: Sleary’s Horsemanship

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'By your leaves, gentleman!'…

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'Pray', said Mr. Gradgrind…

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'Squire!' said Mr. Sleary…

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'Be sure you know your own mind, Jupe,'…

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Chapter 7: Mrs. Sparsit

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'I'm not going to take him at once…'

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Chapter 8: Never Wonder

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'It's a great pity…'

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Chapter 9: Sissy's Progress

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'Did your father love her?'

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Chapter 10: Stephen Blackpool

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'Always a muddle?'…

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Chapter 11: No Way Out

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In the strength of his misfortune…

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Stephen, subsiding into his quiet manner…

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Chapter 12: The Old Woman

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She was gone by and by…

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Chapter 13: Rachael

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Out of what mystery he came back…

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Chapter 14: The Great Manufacturer

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All this while, Louisa…

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Chapter 15: Father And Daughter

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Removing her eyes from him…

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Chapter 16: Husband and Wife

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Book 2: Reaping Chapter 1: Effects In The Bank

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Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment…

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'Has it been a busy day, Bitzer?'…

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Here the visitor all unconscious…

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The inattention and indolence of his manner…

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Chapter 2: Mr. James Harthouse

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They went out without further discourse…

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'You are a singular politician…'

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Chapter 3: The Whelp

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'That's the past tense, Tom,'…

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Chapter 4: Men And Brothers

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The assembly was divided at this point.

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'My brothers,' said Stephen…

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Thus easily did Stephen Blackpool fall…

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Chapter 5: Men And Masters

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Stephen bent his head to the gentleman…

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Chapter 6: Fading Away

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Age, especially when it strives…

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'I have come to speak to you…'

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Stephen followed him out…

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It was but a hurried parting…

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Chapter 7: Gunpowder

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It was among the leafy shadows…

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'Mrs Bounderby,' said Harthouse…

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They walked on to the house…

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Chapter 8: Explosion

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Bitzer knuckled his forehead again.

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It soon appeared that if Mrs. Sparsit…

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Long after Louisa had undressed…

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Chapter 9: Hearing The Last Of It

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This again made the excellent woman vastly sentimental.

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She went with a heavy, hardened kind of sorrow…

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Chapter 10: Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase

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The same evening, Mrs. Sparsit…

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Chapter 11: Lower and Lower

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Next day, Saturday, Mrs. Sparsit sat…

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Mrs. Sparsit saw her out of the wood…

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Chapter 12: Down

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He moved, to support her with his arm.

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Book 3: Garnering Chapter 1: Another Thing Needful

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'My dear, I have remained all night at my table…'

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Chapter 2: Very Ridiculous

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It was impossible, even before dinner…

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'Well! If it should unhappily appear…'

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If she had asserted any influence…

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Chapter 3: Very Decided

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'Well, ma'am,' said Bounderby…

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The blusterous Bounderby crimsoned…

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Chapter 4: Lost

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'Who is it?', asked Louisa.

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Since his sheet-anchor had come home…

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Chapter 5: Found

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The spectacle of a matron…

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'I don't exactly know,'…

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Chapter 6: The Starlight

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The wide prospect, so beautiful…

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When all was ready…

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Chapter 7: Whelp-Hunting

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The first thing they saw…

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Mr. Gradgrind arrived within an hour…

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Chapter 8: Philosophical

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The other three sat up at the inn all night…

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Chapter 9: Final

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Here was Mr. Gradgrind on the same day…

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