Track | Chapter | Reader | Length |
01 | 01 Book 1 Chapter 1 | Kirsten Ferreri | 2:23 |
02 | 02 Book 1 Chapter 2 | Kirsten Ferreri | 11:51 |
03 | 03 Book 1 Chapter 3 | Kirsten Ferreri | 9:58 |
04 | 04 Book 1 Chapter 4 | Stewart Wills | 17:31 |
05 | 05 Book 1 Chapter 5 | Stewart Wills | 13:56 |
06 | 06 Book 1 Chapter 6 | Rosalind Wills | 25:18 |
07 | 07 Book 1 Chapter 7 | Joseph Ugoretz | 13:57 |
08 | 08 Book 1 Chapter 8 | Joseph Ugoretz | 12:17 |
09 | 09 Book 1 Chapter 9 | Phil Hansen | 20:16 |
10 | 10 Book 1 Chapter 10 | Phil Hansen | 14:31 |
11 | 11 Book 1 Chapter 11 | Rosalind Wills | 14:58 |
12 | 12 Book 1 Chapter 12 | Rosalind Wills | 9:54 |
13 | 13 Book 1 Chapter 13 | Paul Hansen | 20:21 |
14 | 14 Book 1 Chapter 14 | Paul Hansen | 13:18 |
15 | 15 Book 1 Chapter 15 | Paul Hansen | 20:59 |
16 | 16 Book 1 Chapter 16 | Paul Hansen | 14:44 |
17 | 17 Book 2 Chapter 1 | Stuart Bell | 31:25 |
18 | 18 Book 2 Chapter 2 | Joseph Ugoretz | 16:55 |
19 | 19 Book 2 Chapter 3 | Joseph Ugoretz | 10:12 |
20 | 20 Book 2 Chapter 4 | Paul Hansen | 22:49 |
21 | 21 Book 2 Chapter 5 | Paul Hansen | 18:12 |
22 | 22 Book 2 Chapter 6 | Paul Hansen | 31:12 |
23 | 23 Book 2 Chapter 7 | Debra Lynn | 28:54 |
24 | 24 Book 2 Chapter 8 | Zachary Brewster-Geisz | 26:38 |
25 | 25 Book 2 Chapter 9 | JemmaBlythe | 19:46 |
26 | 26 Book 2 Chapter 10 | JemmaBlythe | 10:53 |
27 | 27 Book 2 Chapter 11 | Debra Lynn | 20:36 |
28 | 28 Book 2 Chapter 12 | Debra Lynn | 10:20 |
29 | 29 Book 3 Chapter 1 | Debra Lynn | 14:20 |
30 | 30 Book 3 Chapter 2 | Debra Lynn | 20:50 |
31 | 31 Book 3 Chapter 3 | Debra Lynn | 18:40 |
32 | 32 Book 3 Chapter 4 | Debra Lynn | 20:51 |
33 | 33 Book 3 Chapter 5 | Graham Thomsen | 21:17 |
34 | 34 Book 3 Chapter 6 | Joseph Ugoretz | 21:18 |
35 | 35 Book 3 Chapter 7 | Joseph Ugoretz | 23:57 |
36 | 36 Book 3 Chapter 8 | Joseph Ugoretz | 14:06 |
37 | 37 Book 3 Chapter 9 | Joseph Ugoretz | 11:14 |
Notes
Running Time:10 hours and 51 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Rosalind Wills
Meta Coordinator: Kirsten Ferreri
Artwork
Cover: Engraving from a 1863 edition of Hard Times
DVD Inset: Engraving of Charles Dickens from a photograph by Elliott & Fry from Great Britain and Her Queen by Anne E. Keeling.
Recordings
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Hard Times, Charles Dickens’s tenth novel, was published in 1854 after having been serialized that same year in Dickens’ weekly periodical Household Words. It is an unusual novel in at least two respects. First, it is one of Dickens’ shortest works, its length being less than one quarter of those novels immediately preceding and succeeding it. And second, it does not take place in and around London but in Coketown, a generic mill town in the north of England. Hard Times is a work that distills the essence of Dickens’ concerns: the rights of the undervalued worker, the inequities of the capitalist system attendant to the industrial revolution, the coarseness of the then modern era, and the failure of the institutions ostensibly in place to protect the rights and lives of the vulnerable poor and lower classes. Like others who’ve suffered at the machinations and relentless grind of blind and deaf bureaucracies, Dickens’ bias for the underdog was as real as the impact his father’s financial ruin had on his childhood. Dickens wrote what he knew, and although his extraordinary industry, famous work ethic, prolific output and unparalleled success lifted him into the upper realms of the wealthy, he never lost sight of or his feelings for the vulnerable, who too often suffered in a society more concerned with status, wealth and profit than the people who were exploited to make the whole thing work. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936233 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700170891 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
Year | 1854 |
Recording | |
Read by | Multiple readers |
Length | 10 hours 47 minutes |
Type of Reading | Collaborative |
Hard Times
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Product Code: DB-1067
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