Hard times. Dickens Ch.

The main events of Charles Dickens “Hard times” (1854) unfold in the small industrial town of Kokstown in North England, where, due to circumstances, the interests and hopes, pragmatic calculations and disinterested dreams of people belonging to different layers of society are closely intertwined. Sir Thomas Gradedrand, the owner of the school with a special “practical” education system, a sober person, an adherent of accurate numbers and facts, accepts the daughter of the old circus clown into the family of sessions, a girl with a kind heart and living imagination. The eldest daughter of Grandynda Louise, who, at the insistence of his father, married an elderly banker-asher Bounterby, helps weaver Stephen Blackpul, who lost his job and accused her brother Tom, and at a critical moment of his own life finds comfort and support from sessions. The owner of the circus Mr. Sliki saves Tom, put on the wanted list... Living human feelings over again overcome class prejudices, leading to the collapse of false values ​​and to the disclosure of old family secrets.