Theme of Industry in Victorian English Novels 
.... It cannot occur to anyone in power that
Tom Gradgrind is a scoundrel and a thief and that he is so very much because of his respectable social position. ....
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Hard Times
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Gradgrind cares only for demonstrable fact and his two children,
Tom and Louisa, much like Dickens, are raised in a grim and practical environment. ....
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Hard Times Dicken's Hard Times
....
Gradgrind cares only for demonstrable fact and his two children,
Tom and Louisa, much like Dickens, are raised in a grim and practical environment. ....
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Charles Dickens
.... The major characters are Thomas
Gradgrind, who has tried to instill in his children (
Tom and Louisa) a love of the practical and an abhorrence for anything ....
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Dickens & Mark Twain as Social Philosophers
.... valiantly to answer
Gradgrind's pompous questions as he thinks they should be answered, but her failure makes her seem wiser for it.
Tom Sawyer constantly ....
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