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  • North and South

    “Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”When her clergyman father decides to leave the Church, Margaret Hale is whisked away from her tranquil life in the rural south and brought to the gritty industrial town of Milton-Northern. Befriending the ... Read more

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  • Cranford

    "Cranford" is a timeless novel written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and first published in 1851-1853 in serialized form in a literary magazine. Set in the fictional town of Cranford, the story provides a delightful and charming portrayal of the lives and experiences of the town's predominantly female inhabitants. Gaskell skillfully weaves together a collection of episodic tales to create a vivid ... Read more

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  • Cranford

    Cranford was first serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853. The structureless nature of the stories, and the fact that Gaskell was busy writing her novel Ruth at the time the Cranford shorts were being published, suggests that she didn't initially plan for Cranford to be a cohesive novel.The short vignettes follow the activities of the society in the fictional ... Read more

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  • North and South

    Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into confusion by stern factory owner John Thornton - whose treatment of his workers brings them into fierce opposition.As men and women, workers and masters come into violent conflict, ... Read more

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  • Wives and Daughters

    Secrets and scandals steer a young woman's life as she comes of age and finds love in Victorian England.Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson has grown up under the watchful eye of her widowed father, the doctor Mr. Gibson. After one of his apprentices develops an interest in Molly, Mr. Gibson feels the only way to protect her is to send her to live with the Hamley family.With his daughter away, Gibson ... Read more

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  • Cranford

    Gaskell's best-known novel, the subject of a recent movie starring Dame Judi Dench and Simon Woods. According to Wikipedia: "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ( 1810 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch, Disappearances, The Crooked Branch...) (Halloween Stories)

    Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her first novel, "Mary Barton", was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are "Cranford" (1853), "North and South" (1854), and "Wives and Daughters" (1865). Gaskell became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work ... Read more

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  • North And South

    Upon their arrival in the fictional town of Milton from their comfortable life in the rural South, Margaret Hale and her parents are struck by the harsh reality of the industrial revolution. When Margaret becomes sympathetic to the suffering of the town’s mill workers and their families, she develops a resolute sense of social justice that puts her at odds with the mill’s owner, John Thorton ... Read more

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  • North and South

    Margaret's safe existence is turned upside down when she has to move to the grim northern town of Milton. Not only does she have her eyes opened by the poverty and hardship she encounters there, but she is thrown into confusion by stern factory owner John Thornton - whose treatment of his workers brings them into fierce opposition. As men and women, workers and masters come into violent conflict, ... Read more

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  • Gothic Tales

    In "Gothic Tales," Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), the eminent Victorian author, brings us nine chilling gothic stories. Collected here are tales that set a precedent for ghost and horror stories of the era. In "The Poor Clare" a young innocent girl named Lucy is haunted by an unrelenting ghost invoked by her aging grandmother. In the novella "Lois the Witch" the young Lois sails to America to join ... Read more

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  • North and South

    A Powerful Victorian Novel of Love, Class, and Social ChangeNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is one of the great social novels of Victorian literature, combining an intense love story with a thoughtful exploration of class, industrialization, and social responsibility. Written at the request of Charles Dickens, it was first published anonymously in serial form in Household Words from 1854 to ... Read more

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  • Cranford (Mobi Classics)

    Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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