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The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellEh, 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, Mollys life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls b...

Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from the great Victorian novelist.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from ar...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Nr pagini: 96 pagesFormat: 129 x 198 x 8mm | 110gAnul aparitiei: 15 Mar 2008

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 Barton is a factory-worker\\''s daughter living a working-class life in Victorian England. She soon attracts the attentions of the mill-owner\\''s son, Harry Carson, and in the hope that mar...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`\\"I\\''ll not listen to reason,\\" she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. \\"Reason always means what someone else has got to say.\\"\\''First published in serial format in a magazine, Gaskell\\''s Cranford is a delightfully light-hearted series of stories about early Victorian life in a country village.Following the lives of two spinster sisters, Miss Matty and ...

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 development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's Confessions, to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with The Doom of the Griffiths.The story of Cousin Phillis, he...

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes - worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of t...

Set in the mid19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society.This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to ...

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 and step-daughter all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the world of th...