Hard Times Complete Text
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Hard Times E-Text contains the full text of Hard Times
The Question and Answer section for Hard Times is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Mr. Bounderby is one of the central characters of the novel. He is a business acquaintance of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind. He employs many of the characters in the novel and he is very wealthy. He marries Louisa Gradgrind (several decades his junior) and...
Gradgrind tells his students at his school that wallpaper with horses on it is unrealistic because horses do not in fact live on walls,
I think he brags about having grown up an orphan and rising to prosperity through talent and determination.