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Cranford (Clothbound Classic) by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Cranford By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid po ...Show more
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
Cranford (Penguin English Library) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'. "Cranford" is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-cen ...Show more
Cranford and Selected Short Stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); John Chapple (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the de ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Category: Fiction
"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds" Mary Barton, the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Sally Minogue (Intro and Notes by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
'O Jem, her father won't listen to me, and it's you must save Mary You're like a brother to her' Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds!' Based in the industrial unrest of 1840s Manchester, Mary ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by GASKELL Elizabeth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father a ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell. "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways..." Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course b ...Show more
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