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No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens exposes the devilish industries and institutions that exploited the bodies and minds of the vulnerable labor class.

Originally written for Dickens' weekly magazine, Household Words, this short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imagi...

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In Dickens carefully crafted novel, a sensitive drama unfolds between the stern, proud patriarch Dombey and his family, in which time and fateful events bring a slow, inexorable pressure to bear upon the hearts of all.

In Dickens carefully crafted novel, a sensitive drama unfolds between the stern, proud patriarch Dombey and his family, in which time and fateful events bring a slow, inexorable pressure to bear upon the hearts of all.

In Dickens carefully crafted novel, a sensitive drama unfolds between the stern, proud patriarch Dombey and his family, in which time and fateful events bring a slow, inexorable pressure to bear upon the hearts of all.

Wealthy and old, Martin Chuzzlewit, Sr. is surrounded by greedy relatives hoping to obtain a portion of his estate upon his death. Of his two descendants, one has the good fortune to transform his heritage of selfishness.